Which of the functions below could have created this graph?

The South Coast Air Basin (Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties) does not meet the air quality standards for carbon

Archy [21]

Answer:

0.2225 gr/mile

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's work out first the amount of CO sent out in 1990.

The population we estimated in 12.5 million people with a total of driven miles per year of about

12.5 million*8,700 = 108,750 million miles.

With an CO emission factor of 0.9 g per mile, we would have a total of CO emitted rounding 0.9*180,750 = 97,875 million grams

Now, we must estimate the population for 2020.

Since we are assuming an exponential growth, the population in year t is given by a function

$\bf P(t)= Ce^{kt}$

where C and k are constants to be determined.

We can take 1980 as year 0. This way calculations are lighter. 1990 is year 10 and 2020 is year 20.

So P(0) = 10.3 and C=10.3

So far we have

$\bf P(t)= 10.3e^{kt}$

Given that P(10)=12.5

$\bf 10.3e^{k*10}=12.5\rightarrow e^{10k}=\frac{12.5}{10.3}=1.21359\rightarrow \\10k=log(1.21359)\rightarrow k=0.01936$

And the function that models the population growth is

$\bf P(t)= 10.3e^{0.01936t}$

We need P(20)

$\bf P(20)= 10.3e^{0.01936*20}=10.3e^{0.38717}=15.17\;million$

If the miles driven per person per year remains constant at 8700 mi/yr.person, then we have a total miles driven of

15.17*8,700=131,979 million miles, so the CO emitted would be 0.9*131,979=118,781.1 million grams.

The 30% of the CO sent out in 1990 is 0.3*97,875=29,362.5 million grams.

We must reduce 118,781.1 down to 29,362.5

Hence the new CO emission factor would be

29,362.5/131,979 = 0.2225 gr/mile

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This data gives the average number of hours different students spend on the computer each day.

Ulleksa [173]

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

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3 years ago

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What word describes the equal shares of the shape?

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4 years ago

Aliza plays basketball every Tuesday and

Lemur [1.5K]

Answer:

4 days

Step-by-step explanation:

June starts on Monday

for 30days we have 4 weeks starting from Monday to Sunday and extra 2 days which are Monday and Tuesday

so we have 5 mondays and tuesdays

4 wed, thu, fri, sat, sun

Aliza played piano on june1 monday

So aliza played basketball on 5 tues + 4 thurs = 9 days

for calculating both basketball and paino

piano day should be on tuesday or thursday

from the below picture u can see pink dots are piano days

and yellow circles are both piano and basketball days

so on alternate weeks they are coinciding

so there are 4 days

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2 years ago

The two-way table shows the number of students that would rather be a member of the band or chorus if they could only choose one

sergey [27]

Answer:

There are 18 students in Grade 7, 10 are in band, so 10/18 = 0.56 are in band.

There are 12 students in Grade 8, 10 are in band, so 10/12 = 0.83 are in band.

Students in Grade 8 are more likely to be members of the band.There are 18 students in Grade 7, 10 are in band, so 10/18 = 0.56 are in band.

There are 12 students in Grade 8, 10 are in band, so 10/12 = 0.83 are in band.

Students in Grade 8 are more likely to be members of the band.

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