Answer:
Length of the canal on the map is 16.4 centimeters.
Step-by-step explanation:
If actual length of Panama Canal = 20 kilometers
and length of the canal on map = 4 centimeters
Then scale factor =
=
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If the actual length of Panama Canal = 82 kilometers
Then the length of canal on the map = Actual length × Scale factor
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= 16.4 centimeters
Therefore, length of the canal on the map is 16.4 centimeters.
Answer:
a) maximum; the parabola opens downward
b) positive; it must lie above the x-axis
c) x = 1.5
Step-by-step explanation:
The x-intercepts of a function are the points where the graph of the function crosses the x-axis. The y-values there are zero.
The "differences" of a function are related to the average slope between adjacent points. Second differences are related to the rate of change of the slope of the function. When <em>second differences are negative</em>, as here, the slope of the quadratic function is decreasing, becoming more negative. We say the <em>curvature</em> of the function is <em>negatve</em>, and that it <em>opens downward</em>.
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<h3>a, b.</h3>If the graph of the parabola opens downward, and it crosses the x-axis, it must have a <em>maximum</em> that is a <em>positive value of y</em>.
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<h3>c.</h3>The graph of a parabola is symmetrical about its vertex. That means points on the same horizontal line are the same distance from the line of symmetry, which must go through the vertex. The x-coordinate of the vertex will be the x-coordinate of the midpoint between the two x-intercepts:
x = (-2 +5)/2 = 3/2
The x-coordinate of the vertex is x = 1.5.
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<em>Additional comment</em>
The attachment shows a table with three evenly-spaced points on the curve. The calculations show first differences (d1) and second differences (d2). You can see that the sign of the second diffference is negative, in agreement with the given conditions.
Answer:
probability that all the 15 students selected are girls
Step-by-step explanation:
The selection is from a sample without replacement, so we use the hypergeometric distribution to solve this question.
Hypergeometric distribution:
The probability of x sucesses is given by the following formula:
In which:
x is the number of sucesses.
N is the size of the population.
n is the size of the sample.
k is the total number of desired outcomes.
Combinations formula:
is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.
All girls from the first group:
20 students, so
10 girls, so
5 students will be selected, so
We want all of them to be girls, so we find P(X = 5).
All girls from the second group:
20 students, so
5 girls, so
5 students will be selected, so
We want all of them to be girls, so we find P(X = 5).
All girls from the third group:
20 students, so
8 girls, so
5 students will be selected, so
We want all of them to be girls, so we find P(X = 5).
All 15 students are girls:
Groups are independent, so we multiply the probabilities:
probability that all the 15 students selected are girls