You have to have the same unit of measure. Here your units are "minutes" and "seconds". In order to compare the two, you must change to 240 seconds into minutes (dividing by 60 = 4 mins) OR change the 5 minutes into seconds (multiply by 60 to give you 300 seconds)
Speed traveling west = x - 10 km /hr
275 / ( x-10) - 300 / x = 1/2
275 *2x - 300 (x-10)*2 = ( x-10) *x
550x - 600x +6000 = x^2 -10x
x^2 +40x - 6000 = 0
( x -60) ( x+100) = 0
x = 60
ANSWER East = 60 km/ hr West = 50 km /hr
CHECK
300 /60 = 5 hours
275 /50 = 5.5 hours
8 and -8 both of their absolute values are 8
Answer in fraction form = 1/20
Answer in decimal form = 0.05
Answer in percent form = 5%
These are three ways to express the same thing
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Explanation:
Assume the gumball machine only has 5 gumballs, one of each color. The probability of getting yellow is 1/5 since there is one that is yellow out of 5 total.
The probability of getting a lion rubber band is 1/4 for similar reasoning as above.
Because the two events (getting yellow, getting a lion) are independent, this means we can multiply the two probabilities to get (1/5)*(1/4) = 1/20
Use your calculator to see that 1/20 = 0.05 which converts to 5% when you move the decimal point over 2 spots to the right.
Answer: (0.8115, 0.8645)
Step-by-step explanation:
Let p be the proportion of people who leave one space after a period.
Given: Sample size : n= 525
Number of people responded that they leave one space. =440
i.e. sample proportion: 
z-score for 90% confidence level : 1.645
Formula to find the confidence interval :
Hence, a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of people who leave one space after a period: (0.8115, 0.8645)
