A diver descended 46.2 feet in 14.0 minutes. What was the diver's average change in elevation per minute?
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Check the picture below.
now, recall, both blades are congruent, thus a = b, so c² = a² + b² -> c² = b² + b².
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
the mean is given by:
In our case this is:
side note: the main difference between sample mean and population mean is in the 'context'. However, the method to calculate them is the same.
By context I mean: if this the items are taken from some larger category for example: the ages of a few 'students' from a 'class'. Here 'students' are the sample from a larger set that is 'class'. The mean of the 'few students' will be called sample mean. In contrast, if we take the mean of the ages of the whole class then this is called population mean. (population mean == mean of the whole set)
In our case we aren't told exactly where these numbers come from, is this the whole set or a sample from it, the lack of context allows us to assume that the mean can either be population mean or sample mean. So we can safely use any symbol or
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If we evaluate the function at infinity, we can immediately see that:
Therefore, we must perform an algebraic manipulation in order to get rid of the indeterminacy.
We can solve this limit in two ways.
<h3>Way 1:</h3>By comparison of infinities:
We first expand the binomial squared, so we get
Note that in the numerator we get x⁴ while in the denominator we get x³ as the highest degree terms. Therefore, the degree of the numerator is greater and the limit will be \infty. Recall that when the degree of the numerator is greater, then the limit is \infty if the terms of greater degree have the same sign.
<h3>Way 2</h3>Dividing numerator and denominator by the term of highest degree:
Note that, in general, 1/0 is an indeterminate form. However, we are computing a limit when x →∞, and both the numerator and denominator are positive as x grows, so we can conclude that the limit will be ∞.