The vibration period of the spring will be 0.2 seconds
<em><u>Explanation </u></em>
The relationship between the vibration period "T" (in seconds) and the weight "w" (in kilograms) is given by...

Given that, the weight(w) = 2.0 kilograms
So, <u>plugging w = 2.0</u> into the above equation, we will get...

So, the vibration period of the spring will be 0.2 seconds.
General Idea:
If we have a quadratic function of the form f(x)=ax^{2} +bx+c , then the function will attain its maximum value only if a < 0 & its maximum value will be at x=-\frac{b}{2a} .
Applying the concept:
The height h is modeled by h = −16t^2 + vt + c, where v is the initial velocity, and c is the beginning height of the firecracker above the ground. The firecracker is placed on the roof of a building of height 15 feet and is fired at an initial velocity of 100 feet per second. Substituting 15 for c and 100 for v, we get the function as
.
Comparing the function f(x)=ax^{2} +bx+c with the given function
, we get
,
and
.
The maximum height of the soccer ball will occur at t=\frac{-b}{2a}=\frac{-100}{2(-16)} = \frac{-100}{-32}=3.125 seconds
The maximum height is found by substituting
in the function as below:

Conclusion:
<u>Yes !</u> The firecracker reaches a height of 100 feet before it bursts.
Let's have this equation equal y first. All we have to do is add y to both sides and subtract 4 from both sides.
5x-4=y
Now, to get a parallel line, the y intercept has to change. The y intercept (the -4 in the equation) can be an infinite amount of number but -4.
Let's choose 6. We would have 5x+6=y or you could put it in the way the other equation was, 5x-y=-6.
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".
The t distribution or Student’s t-distribution is a "probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small (n<30) or when the population variance is unknown".
The shape of the t distribution is determined by its degrees of freedom and when the degrees of freedom increase the t distirbution becomes a normal distribution approximately.
Data given
Confidence =0.99 or 99%
represent the significance level
n =16 represent the sample size
We don't know the population deviation 
Solution for the problem
For this case since we don't know the population deviation and our sample size is <30 we can't use the normal distribution. We neeed to use on this case the t distribution, first we need to calculate the degrees of freedom given by:

We know that
so then
and we can find on the t distribution with 15 degrees of freedom a value that accumulates 0.005 of the area on the left tail. We can use the following excel code to find it:
"=T.INV(0.005;15)" and we got
on this case since the distribution is symmetric we know that the other critical value is 