Real world Situations

    Write and solve each equation from the given word problem on a blank sheet of paper. Write your answers in a complete sentence on this page. Show Your Work 1.) Maria combines her 39 seashells with Jacob’s seashells for a total of 173 seashells. Find how...

Special Factoring Strategies

    This week we continue our study of factoring. As you become more familiar with factoring, you will notice there are some special factoring problems that follow specific patterns. These patterns are known as: • a perfect square trinomial; • a difference...

Series of observations find the mean, median, and midrange

  1. For the following series of observations find the mean, median, and midrange. 6, 5, 2, 11, 5, 3, 9, 13, 20, 5, 16, 1. 2. Suppose your instructor assigns grade for the course based on your performance as following: 35% for quizzes, 25% for midterm exam, 35%...

The marketing area

  As the manager of the human resources department at your firm, you are investigating the number of sick days employees took during the last calendar year. For employees in the marketing area, the average number of sick days is 4.8 with standard deviation 2.1;...

Coefficients of variation

  Suppose for a given month, the mean daily closing price for stock A was 142.54 and the standard deviation was 13.4. For stock B, the mean daily closing price was 82.54 with a standard deviation of 8.4.Which stock was more volatile? Stocks with greater...