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Answer:
Due to the higher Z-score, Demetria should be offered the job.
Step-by-step explanation:
Z-score:
In a set with mean and standard deviation
, the z-score of a measure X is given by:
The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the p-value, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.
In this question:
Whichever applicant had grade with the highest z-score should be offered the job.
Demetria got a score of 85.1; this version has a mean of 61.1 and a standard deviation of 12.
For Demetria, we have . So
Vincent got a score of 299.2; this version has a mean of 264 and a standard deviation of 22.
For Vincent, we have .
Tobias got a score of 7.26; this version has a mean of 7.1 and a standard deviation of 0.4.
For Tobias, we have .
Due to the higher Z-score, Demetria should be offered the job.
Answer:
x ≈ -4.419
Step-by-step explanation:
Separate the constants from the exponentials and write the two exponentials as one. (This puts x in one place.) Then use logarithms.
0 = 2^(x-1) -3^(x+1)
3^(x+1) = 2^(x-1) . . . . . add 3^(x+1)
3×3^x = (1/2)2^x . . . . .factor out the constants
(3/2)^x = (1/2)/3 . . . . . divide by 3×2^x
Take the log:
x·log(3/2) = log(1/6)
x = log(1/6)/log(3/2) . . . . . divide by the coefficient of x
x ≈ -4.419
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A graphing calculator is another tool that can be used to solve this. I find it the quickest and easiest.
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<em>Comment on alternate solution</em>
Once you get the exponential terms on opposite sides of the equal sign, you can take logs at that point, if you like. Then solve the resulting linear equation for x.
(x+1)log(3) = (x-1)log(2)
x=(log(2)+log(3))/(log(2)-log(3))
