At George Washington High School the ratio of graduating seniors that go on to college, as compared to those who do not, is 7 :
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Step-by-step explanation:
Observe in the figure given in the exercise that four right triangles are formed.
In this case you can use the following Trigonometric Identity to solve this exercise:
From the figure you can identify that:
Then, you can substitute values:
The next step is to solve for DE in order to find its value. This is:
Finally, rounding the result to the nearest tenth, you get that this is:
Answer:
a) The 99% confidence interval would be given by (346.708;453.292)
b) The 99% confidence interval would be given by (338.445;461.555)
Step-by-step explanation:
1) 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".
represent the sample mean for the sample
population mean (variable of interest)
represent the population standard deviation
n=15 represent the sample size
2) Part a
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
(1)
Since the Confidence is 0.99 or 99%, the value of and
, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-NORM.INV(0.005,0,1)".And we see that
Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):
So on this case the 99% confidence interval would be given by (346.708;453.292)
3) Part b
For this case we don't know the population deviation so we need to use the t distribution instead the normal standard distribution.
The confidence interval for the mean is given by the following formula:
(1)
We need to find the degrees of freedom first df=n-1=15-1=14
Since the Confidence is 0.99 or 99%, the value of and
, and we can use excel, a calculator or a table to find the critical value. The excel command would be: "=-T.INV(0.005,14)".And we see that
Now we have everything in order to replace into formula (1):
So on this case the 99% confidence interval would be given by (338.445;461.555)
Answer:
72 feet from the shorter pole
Step-by-step explanation:
The anchor point that minimizes the total wire length is one that divides the distance between the poles in the same proportion as the pole heights. That is, the two created triangles will be similar.
The shorter pole height as a fraction of the total pole height is ...
18/(18+24) = 3/7
so the anchor distance from the shorter pole as a fraction of the total distance between poles will be the same:
d/168 = 3/7
d = 168·(3/7) = 72
The wire should be anchored 72 feet from the 18 ft pole.
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<em>Comment on the problem</em>
This is equivalent to asking, "where do I place a mirror on the ground so I can see the top of the other pole by looking in the mirror from the top of one pole?" Such a question is answered by reflecting one pole across the plane of the ground and drawing a straight line from its image location to the top of the other pole. Where the line intersects the plane of the ground is where the mirror (or anchor point) should be placed. The "similar triangle" description above is essentially the same approach.
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Alternatively, you can write an equation for the length (L) of the wire as a function of the location of the anchor point:
L = √(18²+x²) + √(24² +(168-x)²)
and then differentiate with respect to x and find the value that makes the derivative zero. That seems much more complicated and error-prone, but it gives the same answer.
