Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Given that the hartford insurance company has hired you to poll a sample of adults about their car purchases.
Here the insurance company is using convenience sampling to select customers so they resorted to taking the names from telephone directories.
But this may not be reliable since persons owning cars need not have telephones and similarly persons having telephones need not own cars
Owning a car and name appearing in telephone directory need not be associated at all
So taking random sample of names from telephone directories may not give the required accurate result since here sample cannot be assumed to represent the population of car owners.
Answer:
The original length was 41 inches and the original width was 16 inches
Step-by-step explanation:
Let
x ----> the original length of the piece of metal
y ----> the original width of the piece of metal
we know that
When squares with sides 5 in long are cut from the four corners and the flaps are folded upward to form an open box
The dimensions of the box are

The volume of the box is equal to


so

simplify
-----> equation A
Remember that
The piece of metal is 25 in longer than it is wide
so
----> equation B
substitute equation B in equation A

solve for y

Solve the quadratic equation by graphing
using a graphing tool
The solution is y=16
see the attached figure
Find the value of x

therefore
The original length was 41 inches and the original width was 16 inches