Curt because if his time was 8/9 of Ian's time then that means he ran the mile in a fraction of Ian's time, so he finished the mile quicker. Curt ran faster.
Answer:

If we divide both sides by
we got:

And we can use the normal distribution table or excel to find the probabilites and we got:
Step-by-step explanation:
Previous concepts
Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".
The Z-score is "a numerical measurement used in statistics of a value's relationship to the mean (average) of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean".
Solution to the problem
Let X the random variable that represent the area of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:
Where
and 
We select a a sample of n =4 and since the distribution for X is normal then we know that the distribution for the sample mean
is given by:

And we want to find this probability:

If we divide both sides by
we got:

And we can use the normal distribution table or excel to find the probabilites and we got:

Answer:B. 2x^2 + 4x - 1 - 9/4x + 1
Step-by-step explanation:
f(x) = 8x^3 + 18x^2 − 10
g(x) = 4x + 1
We want to determine f(x)/g(x). We would apply the long division method. The steps are shown in the attached photo.
The correct answer is
2x^2 + 4x - 1 - 9/4x + 1
The answer would be 34, here is my work