Answer: X = 5
Step-by-step explanation:
The correct formula to solve the problem is:
11x - 8 = 47
First, add 8 to each side.
11x = 55
Solve it by dividing both sides by 11:
X = 5
The given scenario falls under the category of conditional probability. There are a total of 56 people in the fishing group described above. The probability that the a person caught a fish and fished from a boat is 24/56. The probability that he fished from a boat is (24+11)/56. For the conditional probability in this item is,
P = (24/56) / ((24+11)/56) = 24/35 = 0.69
Answer:
You can see the graph below.
To answer the question, you need to draw a vertical line from x = 12h up, until the line meets with the line.
Once the line meets with the line, draw a horizontal line from that point, and the value where this line intersects with the y-axis will be the distance from home after 12 hours.
The graph is kinda hard to read because the line is really steep, the green line is the equation y = 40*x
the red line is a line at x = 12
The black dashed line is the horizontal line that intersects with the y-axis.
In the graph, you can see that the dashed line intersects the y-axis at around y = 475.
Then a good estimate is that the distance after 12 hours is 475 (miles).
Now, we can compare this with the direct calculation, just replace x by 12 in the given line:
y = 40*12 = 480.
So our estimation is really accurate.