Interesting question about feet and inches. The best way to solve this problem is to ask yourself how many inches are in a foot. Since there are 12 inches in every foot then the length of 2'8" can be written as (2*12)" + 8". Which is 24+8 or 32 inches. The second number (1'6") can be written as (1*12)"+6" which is 18 inches. 32 + 18 = 50 inches. Or, if you want to change this back into feet and inches just divide it by 12. 50/12 is 4 R. 2. So 4'2".
Ok so you plug them in. -5 squared is 25 minus 27
What this question simply asks about is you write the numbers it gave you in only one digit by 10 to the power of n. Where n represents the number of shifts of the decimal point.
And to get this number to be one digit, then you have to approximate.
To approximate; you should always consider that less than 5 counts zero and 5 or more counts+1.
Example:
5.3 is approximately 5
5.5 is approx. 6
5.9 is also approx. 6
and so on.
So the final answers are;
1) 4*10^13
2) 5*10^-11
Please note that 10^positive integer will cause the decimal point to move to the right which means a number greater than 1, usually, while 10^negative integer means number smaller than 1, usually.
Hope this helps.
The probability is 0.8997.
We will use a z-score to answer this question. z-scores are given by the formula
With our information, we have
Looking this up in a z-table (http://www.z-table.com) we see that the area to the left of this (everything less than, up to this value) is 0.8997.
