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3 years ago

Two ladders are leaning against a wall at the same angle, as shown. How long is the short ladder?

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2 answers:

zzz [600]3 years ago

5 0

For example, l is the length of short ladder we want to find

Make a comparison
ladder/wall height = ladder/wall height
l/20 = 60/50
l/20 = 6/5
l = 6/5 × 20
l = 120/5
l = 24

The short ladder is 24 ft

zavuch27 [327]3 years ago

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Set a porportion: 60/50=x/20 and solve for x=24

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1) Mean of the set of data: 29.88

2) Mean absolute deviation: 10.13

3) See explanation

Step-by-step explanation:

The mean of a set of data it is calculated as

$\bar x = \frac{1}{N}\sum x_i$

where

N is the number of data in the set

$x_i$ is the value of each point in the dataset

For the set of data in this problem, we have:

$x_i =[28, 45, 12, 34, 36, 45, 19, 20]$

And the number of values is

N = 8

Therefore, we can calculate the mean:

$\bar x = \frac{1}{8}(28+ 45+ 12+ 34+ 36+ 45+ 19+ 20)=\frac{239}{8}=29.88$

The mean absolute deviation of a set of data is given by

$\delta = \frac{1}{N}\sum |x_i-\bar x|$

where

N is the number of values in the dataset

$x_i$ are the single values

$\bar x$ is the mean of the dataset

The dataset here is

$x_i =[28, 45, 12, 34, 36, 45, 19, 20]$

The mean, calculated in part 1), is

$\bar x = 29.88$

And

N = 8

Therefore the mean absolute deviation is

$\delta = \frac{1}{8}(|28-29.88|+|45-29.88|+|12-29.88|+|34-29.88|+|36-29.88|+|45-29.88|+|19-29.88|+|20-29.88|)=\frac{81}{8}=10.13$

The mean of a dataset is the sum of the single values of the dataset divided by the number of values. The mean represents the value $\bar x$ for which, if the dataset would have N values all equal to $\bar x$ , the sum of the values of the dataset would be the same as the sum of the actual values.

The mean absolute deviation for a set of data represents the average of the absolute deviations of the single points from the mean of the dataset. This quantity gives a measure of the "dispersion" of the points around the mean: in fact, the larger the mean absolute deviation is, the more the points are "spread" around the mean of the dataset. Instead, if the mean absolute deviation is small, it means that the points are closer to the mean value.

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nlexa [21]

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Step-by-step explanation:

Consider the provided information.

Maurice's new CD has 12 songs. Each song lasts between 3 and 4 minutes.

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The maximum length of the CD should be: 12×4=48 minutes

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Step-by-step explanation:

The point (ectangular coordinates)

P ( -6√3 ; 6 ) P ( x ; y )

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x = r cos θ

y = r sin θ r > 0 and 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2π

Then

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The point P ( -6√3 ; 6 ) is in second cuadrant between 90° and 180°

angle between r and horizontal axis x is equal to θ

tan α = l.opp/ l.adj. tan θ = y/x tan θ = - 6 /6√3

tan α = - 1/√3

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to express that value in radians we have :

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x ?? = 150⁰

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