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3 years ago

A teenage boy is 6 ft tall and casts a shadow of 8ft.What is the distance from the top of his head to the end of his shadow?

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2 answers:

Dmitrij [34]3 years ago

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The decimal format of this is 9.16515139

However converted to feet your looking at about 5 feet 2 inches

lisabon 2012 [21]3 years ago

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Answer:

10 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

This image forms a special right triangle: 3-4-5. This represents the ratios of the sides.

Multiplying 3-4-5 by 2, you get 6-8-10. 10 is the hypotenuse (the answer you want) and the only number not listed in the problem.

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Step-by-step explanation:

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".

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$p \sim N(p,\sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{n}})$

Data given and notation

n=1024 represent the random sample taken

X=471 represent the people responded that they had used their cell phone while in a store within the last 30 days to call a friend or family member for advice about a purchase they were considering

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Part a

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$\hat p \pm z_{\alpha/2} \sqrt{\frac{\hat p(1-\hat p)}{n}}$

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