Answer:
-a - 8
Step-by-step explanation:
2a - 5 - (3a + 3)
2a - 5 - 3a - 3
-a - 8
I hope this helps!
It is often easiest to use "military time". That is, add 12 to all the afternoon numbers and do the subtraction in the usual way. Of course, 1 hour = 60 minutes, so 10 minutes = 10/60 hour = 1/6 hour.
Mon: 15:10 -8:00 = 7:10 = 7 1/6
Tue: 15:25 -8:05 = 7:20 = 7 1/3
Wed: 14:30 -8:00 = 6:30 = 6 1/2
Thur: 14:45 -7:55 = 7:(-10) = 6:50 = 6 5/6
Fri: 15:38 -7:58 = 8:(-20) = 7:40 = 7 2/3
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Some calculators have nice features for working with degrees, minutes, and seconds. In this context, degrees and hours are the same thing. That is, the base-60 arithmetic is the same whether you consider the numbers to be hours or degrees. Similarly, some calculators convert nicely between decimal fractions and mixed numbers. In short, a suitable calculator will almost do this math for you. (You just need to add 12 to all the numbers in the column on the right.)
Answer:
0.7823 = 78.23% probability that the response time is between 3 and 9 minutes.
Step-by-step explanation:
Normal Probability Distribution:
Problems of normal distributions can be solved using the z-score formula.
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.
Mean of 7.2 minutes and a standard deviation of 2.1 minutes.
This means that 
For a randomly received emergency call, find the probability that the response time is between 3 and 9 minutes.
This is the pvalue of Z when X = 9 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 3.
X = 9



has a pvalue of 0.8051
X = 3



has a pvalue of 0.0228
0.8051 - 0.0228 = 0.7823
0.7823 = 78.23% probability that the response time is between 3 and 9 minutes.
The slope is -2/3. use the slop form y = mx + b