A tree is 3 times as tall as a nearby pole. If the tree is 14 feet 9 inches tall, how tall is the pole?

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Take the height of the tree and convert it to inches by multiplying the feet by 12 and then adding the leftover inches; this comes out to 177 inches. Divide this number by 3 to receive the height of the pole; this turns out to be 59 inches. Then convert it to get and inches to get 4 feet 11 inches, because 5 feet is 60 inches.

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$p=X/n=21/140=0.15$

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$P(X$

3. For the sample with men and women, we use the proportion for both, which is π=0.2.

The sample size is n=300.

Then, the standard error of the proportion is:

$\sigma_p=\sqrt{\dfrac{p(1-p)}{n}}=\sqrt{\dfrac{0.2*0.8}{300}}\\\\\\ \sigma_p=\sqrt{0.0005}=0.0231$

We can calculate the z-scores for p1=0.18 and p2=0.25:

$z_1=\dfrac{p_1-\pi}{\sigma_p}=\dfrac{0.18-0.2}{0.0231}=\dfrac{-0.02}{0.0231}=-0.8660\\\\\\z_2=\dfrac{p_2-\pi}{\sigma_p}=\dfrac{0.25-0.2}{0.0231}=\dfrac{0.05}{0.0231}=2.1651$