Helen has a box of marbles. Of the marbles are yellow. Of the marbles are red. The rest of the marbles are blue. Helen pulls one
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Answer:
The distance between the cruise ship and the sail boat is 517 feet.
Step-by-step explanation:
The cruise ship is 236 feet tall, and the sailboat is 236 tall; this means the distance between the top of the cruise ship and the top of the sail boat is
236 feet - 27 feet = 209 feet.
We also know that the angel of depression from the top of the cruise ship to the bottom of the cruise ship is 22°. This forms a right triangle as shown in the figure attached.
Now from trigonometry we get:
The distance between the cruise ship and the sailboat is 517 feet.
I have an expression
floating around in my head; let's see if it makes sense.
The variance of binary valued random variable b that comes up 1 with probability p (so has mean p) is
That's for an individual sample. For the observed average we divide by n, and for the standard deviation we take the square root:
Plugging in the numbers,
One standard deviation of the average is almost 2% so a 27% outcome was 3/1.9 = 1.6 standard deviations from the mean, corresponding to a two sided probability of a bit bigger than 10% of happening by chance.
So this is borderline suspect; most surveys will include a two sigma margin of error, say plus or minus 4 percent here, and the results were within those bounds.