Q and A for the topic: General

A couple plans to save for their child's college education. What principal must be deposited by the parents when their child is born in order to have $37,000 when the child reaches the age of 18? Assume the money earns 7% interest, compounded quarterly. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Find the range, the standard deviation, and the variance for the given samples. Round non-integer results to the nearest tenth. 51, 72, 77, 78, 93, 92, 88, 100, 56 range standard deviation variance

Use set-builder notation to write the following set. {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, }

A credit card company offers an annual 2% cash-back rebate on all gasoline purchases. If a family spent $5850 on gasoline purchases over the course of a year, what was the family's rebate at the end of the year?

There were 6 roses in the vase. Mary cut some more roses from her flower garden. There are now 11 roses in the vase. How many roses did she cut ?

Solve the equation. 5 − 7x = 2(1 − 4x)

The dosage of a cold medication is 2 mg for every 80 lb of body weight. How many milligrams of this medication are required for a person who weighs 140 lb?

First try to solve the equation by factoring. If you are unable to solve the equation by factoring, solve the equation by using the quadratic formula. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list. If the solution is not a real number, enter NOT REAL.) 6x − 10 = 2x2

You are the marketing manager at The Best Candy Shop where the top sales item is the Dream Pop bags of flavored candies. You have been getting complaints from customers that there are not enough lemon or blueberry flavored candies, which are favorites, and too many grape and strawberry flavored candies. Your boss wants you to create an advertisement indicating, “all bags have equally likely flavors.” (That is, the probability of getting a strawberry flavored candy piece is the same as getting a blueberry flavored piece, etc.). As the marketing manager, you want to make sure you are advertising truthful information, so you pull a sample bag of Dream Pop candy and find the following pieces: 16 grape flavors 12 strawberry flavors 6 lemon flavors 6 blueberry flavors Explain how you could communicate to your boss that his advertising suggestion (all bags agave equally likely flavors) would be incorrect. You must include at least two (2) probabilities from your sample bag of candy that would deem his advice inaccurate.

A senior high school class held an election for class president. Instead of just voting for one candidate, the students were asked to rank all four candidates in order of preference. The results are shown in the table below. Rankings Raymond Lee 2 3 1 3 4 2 Suzanne Brewer 4 1 3 4 1 3 Elaine Garcia 1 2 2 2 3 4 Michael Turley 3 4 4 1 2 1 Number of votes: 18 12 17 19 24 27 Using the Borda Count method, which student should be class president?

Evalu ́af1(x)=2sin(x)+3cos(x)parax=0,π4,π2

3 + y/4 = 3y/8 - 4

1.) A pizza is covered with multiple toppings. 𝟏/8of the pizza is covered in mushrooms, 𝟏/8 of the pizza is covered with onions, and the rest of the pizza is covered with only cheese. What fraction of the pizza is covered with only cheese?

Suppose that an individual has a body fat percentage of 15.8% and weighs 162 pounds. How many pounds of her weight is made up of fat? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Eleven equally-spaced holes are punched into a bar in a straight line. If the centre-to-centre distance between adjacent holes is 4 1/4'' , what is the centre-to-centre distance between the first hole and the last hole? Write your answer in feet and inches rounded to the nearest eighth.

Given the function f(x)= 3x/4x-1 evaluate the limit of x going positive inifinity

Determine the linear equation that has a slope equal to -8 and passes through the point (2, -9)

Joaquim has rectangular parallelepipeds measuring 600cm by 15cm by 20cm. Joaquim decided to assemble cubes. How many of these parallelepipeds so that Joaquim can assemble the smallest cube possible, maintaining the original size of the small parallelepipeds?

(5x-6)/(3x-5) =2 solution set

(-2,0) and (0,3) Find the equation of the line containing the pair points. Write your solution in slope-intercept form