Suppose the students construct a 95% confidence interval for the true weight of their rocks. Whose interval do you expect to be
1 answer:
Answer:
(i) The student who weighed the rock 20 times.
Step-by-step explanation:
The margin of error of a confidence interval is:
In which z is related to the confidence level, is the standard deviation of the population and n is the size of the sample.
From the equation above, the larger the size of the sample, the lower the margin is, that is, the narrower the interval is.
In this question:
A student weighed the rock 20 times and other the 5. From above, the one who weighed the rock 20 times will have the more precise interval.
So the correct answer is:
(i) The student who weighed the rock 20 times.
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Answer:
-x^3+5x^2-8x+1, which is choice A
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Work Shown:
f(x) = x^3 - x^2 - 3
f(x) = (x)^3 - (x)^2 - 3
f(2-x) = (2-x)^3 - (2-x)^2 - 3 ................ see note 1 (below)
f(2-x) = (2-x)(2-x)^2 - (2-x)^2 - 3 ........... see note 2
f(2-x) = (2-x)(4-4x+x^2) - (4-4x+x^2) - 3 ..... see note 3
f(2-x) = -x^3+6x^2-12x+8 - (4-4x+x^2) - 3 ..... see note 4
f(2-x) = -x^3+6x^2-12x+8 - 4+4x-x^2 - 3 ....... see note 5
f(2-x) = -x^3+5x^2-8x+1
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note1: I replaced every copy of x with 2-x. Be careful to use parenthesis so that you go from x^3 to (2-x)^3, same for the x^2 term as well.
note2: The (2-x)^3 is like y^3 with y = 2-x. We can break up y^3 into y*y^2, so that means (2-x)^3 = (2-x)(2-x)^2
note3: (2-x)^2 expands out into 4-4x+x^2 as shown in figure 1 (attached image below). I used the box method for this and for note 4 as well. Each inner box or cell is the result of multiplying the outside terms. Example: in row1, column1 we have 2 times 2 = 4. You could use the FOIL rule or distribution property, but the box method is ideal so you don't lose track of terms.
note4: (2-x)(4-4x+x^2) turns into -x^3+6x^2-12x+8 when expanding everything out. See figure 2 (attached image below). Same story as note 3, but it's a bit more complicated.
note5: distribute the negative through to ALL the terms inside the parenthesis of (4-4x+x^2) to end up with -4+4x-x^2
