Mike fills his car’s tank with 20 gallons of regular gas at $2.87 per gallon. His car averages 25 miles per hour. Serena fills h
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Step-by-step explanation:
Previous concepts
A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".
The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.
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 population proportion have the following distribution
Solution to the problem
We assume for this case a confidence level of 95%. In order to find the critical value we need to take in count that we are finding the interval for a proportion, so on this case we need to use the z distribution. Since our interval is at 95% of confidence, our significance level would be given by and
. And the critical value would be given by:
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
The margin of error for the proportion interval is given by this formula:
(a)
And if we replace the values obtained we got this:
Answer:
The answers for your two questions are the following
a)11.606 m
b) As the number of swings approaches infinity
Step-by-step explanation:
We are dealing with an exponential equation series, where the length of each swing can be represented as
l = [ 15 *(0.95)^(n-1) ]
n is the corresponding number of the swing.
So, for the first swing, n = 1
[ 15 *(0.95)^(1-1) ] = 15 m
a) How far with the pendulum travel on its 6th swing?
We just need to evaluate the previous formula for n = 6
[ 15 *(0.95)^(6-1) ] =
[ 15 *(0.95)^(5) ] =
[ 15 *(0.7737) ] =
[ 15 *(0.7737) ] = 11.606 m
b) How far will the pendulum swing before it essentially stops? Hint: This is an infinite geometric series.
We previously stated that the length of the arc of each swing can be represented as
l(n) = [ 15 *(0.95)^(n-1) ] , for n>=1
Since the function approaches zero if and only if n approaches infinity, we can say that the pendulum never stops.
Of course, this only happens mathematically, we can always fin a threshold for which the movement cannot be registered anymore.
Please see attached graph for a representation of the function
