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3 years ago

What is the slope of the line is the two point are (-10,-6) and (-1,8)

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Marrrta [24]3 years ago

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To find the slope, use the slope formula and plug in the two points:

(-10, -6) = (x₁ , y₁)

(-1, 8) = (x₂ , y₂)

$m=\frac{y_{2}-y_{1}}{x_{2}-x_{1}}$

$m=\frac{8-(-6)}{-1-(-10)}$

$m=\frac{8+6}{-1+10}$

$m=\frac{14}{9}$

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Problems of normally distributed samples are solved using the z-score formula.

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(a) What fraction of the calls last between 3.6 and 4.2 minutes?

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$Z = 0$ has a pvalue of 0.5

0.9332 - 0.5 = 0.4332

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(b) What fraction of the calls last more than 4.2 minutes?

This is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 4.2. So

$Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}$

$Z = \frac{4.2 - 3.6}{0.4}$

$Z = 1.5$

$Z = 1.5$ has a pvalue of 0.9332

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