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Side XY of triangle XYZ is extended to point W, creating a linear pair with ∠WYZ and ∠XYZ.

Triangle X Y Z. Point W extends from side X Y. Angle Z is 36 degrees, angle Y is x degrees, and exterior angle W Y Z is 100 degrees.

What is the value of x?

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Answer:

[tex]x= 80^o[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

[tex]\angle Z = 36^o[/tex]

[tex]\angle WYZ = 100^o[/tex]

Required

Find x

[tex]\angle WYZ[/tex] and x are on a straight line.

So:

[tex]\angle WYZ + x= 180^o[/tex]

Make x the subject

[tex]x= 180^o -\angle WYZ[/tex]

Substitute known value

[tex]x= 180^o -100^o[/tex]

[tex]x= 80^o[/tex]

Answer:

80 is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

I need help on this plzzz I and not the best at math ​

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Answer:

See attachment for graph

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

[tex]f(x) = \left[\begin{array}{cc}-1&x<-1\\0&-1\le x \le -1\\1&x>1\end{array}\right[/tex]

Required

The graph of the step function

Before plotting the graph, it should be noted that:

[tex]\le[/tex] and [tex]\ge[/tex] use closed circle at its end

[tex]<[/tex] and [tex]>[/tex] use open circle at its end

So, we have:

[tex]f(x) = -1,\ \ \ \ x < -1[/tex]

The line stops at -1 with an open circle      

[tex]f(x) = 0,\ \ \ \ -1 \le x \le 1[/tex]

The line starts at - 1 and stops at -1 with a closed circle at both ends

[tex]f(x) = 1,\ \ \ \ x > 1[/tex]

The line starts at 1 with an open circle

The options are not complete, so I will plot the graph myself.

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Casey's phone service charges a flat monthly fee of $30 for the first 1000 minutes of calls and $0.40 per minute over 1000. Determine Casey's monthly charge if he makes 1,100 minutes of calls?

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Answer:

Casey's monthly charge for making 1,100 minutes of calls is $70.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can write a piecewise function to model the situation.

Since Casey's phone service only charges a monthly fee of $30 for the first 1000 minutes, we can write that for calling t minutes:

[tex]\displaystyle C(t) = 30\text{ if } t\leq 1000[/tex]

In other words, the total cost is only $30 is the total minutes of call is less than  1000 minutes.

However, if the total minutes of calls is greater than 1000, then its $0.40 per minute on top of the 30. Thus:

[tex]\displaystyle C(t) = 30 + 0.4(t-1000)\text{ if } t>1000[/tex]

All together, our piecewise function will be:

[tex]\displaystyle C(t) = \begin{cases} 30 & t\leq 1000 \\ 30 + 0.4(t-1000) & t>1000\end{cases}[/tex]

We want to determine Caseys monthly charge if he makes 1,100 minutes of calls. So, t = 1100. Since 1100 > 1000, we will use the second equation. This yields:

[tex]C(1100)= 30+0.4((1100)-1000)[/tex]

Evaluate:

[tex]\displaystyle C(1100) = 30+0.4(100) = 30+40=\$70[/tex]

Casey's monthly charge for using 1,100 minutes of call is $70.

A credit card advertises an annual interest rate of 23%.
What is the equivalent monthly interest rate?

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Given:

A credit card advertises an annual interest rate of 23%.

To find:

The equivalent monthly interest rate.

Solution:

We know that,

1 year = 12 months

It is given that, the credit card advertises an annual interest rate of 23%. So, the equivalent monthly interest rate is:

[tex]\dfrac{23\%}{12}=1\dfrac{11}{12}\%[/tex]

[tex]\dfrac{23\%}{12}\approx 1.9167\%[/tex]

Therefore, the equivalent monthly interest rate is [tex]1\dfrac{11}{12}\%[/tex] and the approximate equivalent monthly interest rate is 1.9167%.

Issac put $5 in a shoe box every day for the months of april, may, and june. He then spent 75% of the money on baseball cards. How much money is left in his shoe box.

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As of 2021:
April-$150
May-$155
June-$150
Total-$455
Spent 75%=455/100x75
=341.25
455-341.25=$113.75
Round off to 3sf: $114
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A 13-foot ladder is leaning against a vertical wall. If the bottom of the ladder is being pulled away from the wall at the rate of 8 feet per second, at what rate is the area of the triangle formed by the wall, the ground, and the ladder changing, in square feet per second, at the instant the bottom of the ladder is 12 feet from the wall?

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Answer:

[tex]\frac{da}{dt}=-95.2m/s^2[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Slant height [tex]h=13ft[/tex]

Velocity [tex]v=\frac{dx}{dt}=8[/tex]

Distance [tex]d=12ft[/tex]

Generally the equation for area is mathematically given by

[tex]A=0.5*x*sqrt(169 - x^2)[/tex]

Differentiating

[tex]\frac{da}{dx}=\frac{169-2 x^2}{(2 sqrt(169-x^2))}[/tex]

Multiplying through by dx/dt

[tex]\frac{da}{dx}*\frac{dx}{dt}=\frac{169-2 x^2}{(2 \sqrt{169-x^2})}*\frac{dx}{dt}[/tex]

[tex]\frac{da}{dt}=\frac{169-2x^2}{(2 \sqrt{169-x^2})}*\frac{dx}{dt}[/tex]

[tex]\frac{da}{dt}=\frac{169-(2*12^{2})}{2*\sqrt{(169-12^{2})}}*8[/tex]

[tex]\frac{da}{dt}=-95.2m/s^2[/tex]

CUSTOMERS AT A STORE

The bar graph above shows the number of customers who shopped at a store Monday through Thursday of
one week. If the number of customers on Friday was a one-fifth increase over the number of customers on
Thursday, how many customers shopped at the store on Friday?
O 480
O 500
O 525
O 600

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Answer:

480

Step-by-step explanation:

We are looking for the total number of customers in the store on Friday using a chart and a fractional increase.

On Thursday there were 400 customers, so we need to find the amount of the increase.

1/5 of 400 =80

Increase Thursday's amount, 400, by the amount of the increase, 80, to find the number of customers on Friday.

400+80 = 480

Friday has 480

Answer:

480

Step-by-step explanation:

400 + 1/5(400) = 400 + 80 = 480

Intelligence quotients (IQs) on the Stanford-Binet intelligence test are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16.

Use the 68-95-99.7

Rule to find the percentage of people with IQs between 84 and 116.

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Answer:

Approximately 68% of people have IQs between 84 and 116.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Empirical Rule states that, for a normally distributed random variable:

Approximately 68% of the measures are within 1 standard deviation of the mean.

Approximately 95% of the measures are within 2 standard deviations of the mean.

Approximately 99.7% of the measures are within 3 standard deviations of the mean.

In this problem, we have that:

Mean of 100, standard deviation of 16.

Percentage of people with IQs between 84 and 116.

84 = 100 - 16

116 = 100 + 16

So within 1 standard deviation of the mean, which, by the Empirical Rule, is approximately 68%.

P (6,0) under the translation (x-6, y-1)

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Answer:

(0,-1)

Step-by-step explanation:

(6-6,0-1)

or, (0,-1)

What does union mean in a statistics problem?

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Step-by-step explanation:

The union of two sets is the set of elements that belong to one or both sets.

Symbolically, the union of X and Y is denoted by X ∪ Y. As an example, suppose set A = {1, 2, 3} and set B = {1, 3, 5}.

Then, the union of sets A and B would be {1, 2, 3, 5}.

Suppose you work for a political organization and you are interested in hearing how the residents of New York State feel about a particular issue. You are asked to create a sample of at least 10000 residents using a CLUSTER methodolgy. Explain how you could create this sample of New York State residents?

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Since the state is broken up into counties, and each county subdivided into precincts, this provides a natural way to form cluster samples.

If the precinct populations are too large, then you can further subdivide based on household or building residence. In other words, you can randomly select a building and consider that a separate cluster. All residents of that building would be part of the cluster.

In cluster sampling, the idea is that whichever clusters you select, you survey every person who resides in that cluster. So naturally you need to be careful not to go overboard.

Which of the following equations is modeled by the graph?



A)

a = 50t

B)

a = 5t

C)

a = 50 + t

D)

a = 10t

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The answer is A; a=50t cause if you were to put 0, you would get 0 which is the first point, if you put in 1 you get 50, if you put in 2 you get 100 and so on.
The answer is A because it is going 50 more every time so it had to be A.

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The difference of a number and its opposite is 28. Find
the number.

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The difference of a number and it’s opposite is 28. Find

the number.

Answer:14

Step-by-step explanation:

Lets break this word problem down:

"The difference" means we're going to be finding x - y ("difference" means we're finding how much one value "differs" from the other)

"a number and it's opposite" so we're doing x - y, where y = -x. So already, we can re-write this as x - (-x) or x + x

"is 28" so x + x = 28 ("is" always means "equals")

"Find the number" so we're finding x.

x - (-x) = 28  (I went back a step so I could write everything out more plainly)

simplify

x + x = 28

add

2x = 28

divide both sides by 2 to get x on its own

x = 14

Answer:

14

The baker bought the buttercream icing from Crave Cupcakes. Calculate how many containers of icing the baker needs to buy in order to ice a wedding cake. Each container of icing contains 16 ounces of icing. If it takes 56 ounces of icing to cover 678 square inches of cake, calculate the total cost for the icing before tax if each 16 ounce(2 cup) container of icing costs $10.

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Answer:

$40.

Step-by-step explanation:

You need 4 16oz containers of icing to fully cover the cake. As each container costs $10, and you need 4 containers, the total cost of icing to cover the wedding cake, before tax, is $40.

A plot of land in the shape of a horizontal ellipse has a pole at each focus. The foci are 16 feet from the center. If the plot of land is 40 feet across one axis, how long is it across the other axis?

a. 34 feet
b. 46 feet
c. 24 feet
d. 30 feet

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Answer: 24 feet

Step-by-step explanation: i just guessed it on pluto and got it right. please leave a like if it worked

The length of another axis for the given ellipse will be around 25.6125 feet so none of the options will be correct.

What is an ellipse?

a regular oval form produced when a cone is cut by an oblique plane that does not intersect the base, or when a point moves in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points remains constant.

In another word, an ellipse is a curve that becomes by a point moving in such a way that the sum of its distances from two fixed points is a closed planar curve produced.

General equation of an ellipse

(x 2 / a 2 )+ (y2 / b 2 )= 1

Given that

the plot of land is 40 feet across one axis

so  2a = 40 feet

a = 20 feet

The foci are 16 feet from the center so

c = 16

Now we know that

c = √(b² - a²)  

c² = b² - a²

16² = b² - 20²

b = 25.6125  

So, the length of the minor axis will be around 25.6125 feet.

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s A lottery offers one 800 prize, one 700 Prize, two 800 prizes, and four prizes. One thousand tickets are sold at each. Find the expectation if a person buys two tickets. Assume that the player's ticket is replaced after each draw and that the same ticket can win more than one prize. Round to two decimal places for currency problems.

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The question is incomplete. The complete question is :

A lottery offers one $800 prize, one $700 Prize, two $800 prizes, and four $100 prizes. One thousand tickets are sold at $5 each. Find the expectation if a person buys two tickets. Assume that the player's ticket is replaced after each draw and that the same ticket can win more than one prize. Round to two decimal places for currency problems.

The expected if a person buys two tickets is $__

Answer:

$ -1.52

Step-by-step explanation:

Given :

A lottery offers --

One $800 prize

One $700 prize

Two $800 prize

Four $100 prizes

Let X = net win

    X          P(X)

  795      1/1000

  695      1/1000

  795      2/1000

   95      4/1000

    -5     996/1000

[tex]$E(X) = \sum X \ p(X)$[/tex]

         [tex]$=795 \times \frac{1}{1000} + 695 \times \frac{1}{1000} + 795 \times \frac{2}{1000} + 95 \times \frac{4}{1000} + (-5) \times \frac{996}{1000}$[/tex]

         = 0.795 + 0.695 + 1.59 +  0.38 - 4.98

         = $ -1.52

If 12th term of an ap is -13 and sum of 1st four term is 24. What is the sum of first 20 terms

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Answer:

-200

Step-by-step explanation:

ATQ, a+11d=-13 and a+a+d+a+2d+a+3d=24, 4a+6d=24. Solving this, we get a=9 and d=-2. Sum of the first 20 terms is 10*(18+(19)*(-2))=-200

What does -3/8 > -1 indicate about the positions of -3/8 and -1 on the number line?!

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Answer:

-3/8 is located on the right of -1

Step-by-step explanation:

-3/8 is left of -1 because -3/8 is larger than -1.

An auto transport truck holds cars. A car dealer plans to bring in new cars in June and July. If an auto transport truck is filled for each delivery, except for the last one, how many full truckloads are needed and how many cars will be in the last truck?

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Answer:

95 truckloads

Last truck = 10 cars

Step-by-step explanation:

Capacity of auto truck = 12 cars

Total number of cars to be brought in = 1150

The number of truckloads required :

Total number of cars to be brought in / capacity of auto truck

Number of truckloads = 1150 / 12 = 95.83333

This means that the number of full truckloads required will be, the whole number = 95

The last truck won't be full and will contain :

1150 - (95 * 12)

1150 - 1140

= 10 cars


A building security code has 2 numeric
digits, O through 9, followed by 2 letters.
What is the probability that the first digit
is 9 and the last letter is A?

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

First number is 1/10

Last letter is 1/26

The second digit is 1/9

The first letter is 1/25

1/10 * 1/26 * 1/9 * 1/25

0.00001709

This assumes no duplication is allowed,

If there are duplications

then 1/10 * 1/10 * 1/26 * 1/26

0.000014782

Polymer composite materials have gained popularity because they have high strength to weight ratios and are relatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture. However, their nondegradable nature has prompted development of environmentally friendly composites using natural materials. The article "Properties of Waste Silk Shod Fiber/Cellulose Green Composite Films" (. of Composite Materials, 2012: 123-127) reported that for a sample of 10 specimens with 2% fiber content, the sample mean tensile strength (MPa) was 51.3 and the sample standard deviation was 1.2. Suppose the true average strength for 0% fibers (pure cellulose) is known to be 48 MPa. Does the data provide compelling evidence for concluding that true average strength for the WSF/cellulose composite exceeds this value?

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Polymer composite materials have gained popularity because they have high strength to weight ratios and are relatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture. However, their nondegradable nature has prompted development of environmentally friendly composites using natural materials. An article reported that for a sample of 10 specimens with 2% fiber content, the sample mean tensile strength (MPa) was 51.1 and the sample standard deviation was 1.2. Suppose the true average strength for 0% fibers (pure cellulose) is known to be 48 MPa. Does the data provide compelling evidence for concluding that true average strength for the WSF/cellulose composite exceeds this value? (Use α = 0.05.)  

t=8.169  

P-value= ?

Answer:

a)  [tex]P-value=0[/tex]

b)  Hence,We FAil to reject the alternative hypothesis and accept that the true average strength for the WSF/  cellulose composite exceeds 48 MPa.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Sample size [tex]n=10[/tex]

Mean [tex]\=x= 51.3[/tex]

Standard deviation [tex]\sigma=1.2[/tex]

Significance level is taken as [tex]\alpha=0.05[/tex]

t test statistics

[tex]t=8.169[/tex]

Therefore

[tex]P-Value=P(t>8.169)[/tex]

Critical point

[tex]t_{\alpha,df}[/tex]

[tex]\alpha=0.05[/tex]

[tex]df=10-1=>9[/tex]

Therefore

P-value from T distribution table

[tex]P-value=0[/tex]

Conclusion

[tex]P-value (0)< \alpha(0.05)[/tex]

We Reject the Null Hypothesis [tex]H_0[/tex]

Hence,We FAil to reject the alternative hypothesis and accept that the true average strength for the WSF/  cellulose composite exceeds 48 MPa.

A ball inside of a cube has a volume of 113 cubic inches. If each side of the cube measures 12.6 inches, what is the volume of air inside the cube? (Round to the nearest tenth.)


1357.1 cubic inches
1244.1 cubic inches
1887.4 cubic inches
1226.0 cubic inches

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The volume of air inside the cube is 1887.4 cubic inches. Then the correct option is C.

What is Geometry?

It deals with the size of geometry, region, and density of the different forms both 2D and 3D.

A ball inside of a cube has a volume of 113 cubic inches. If each side of the cube measures 12.6 inches.

Then the volume of air inside the cube will be given as the difference between the volume of the cube and the sphere.

Air volume = Volume of the cube - Volume of the sphere

Air volume = 12.6³ - 113

Air volume = 2000.376 - 113

Air volume = 1887.376

Air volume ≅ 1,887.4

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Answer:

1887.4 cubic inches

Step-by-step explanation:

please help solve for y!

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As both angles are supplementary

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto 3x+(2x+3y)=180°[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto 3x+2x+3y=180[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto 5x+3y=180[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto 3y=180-5x[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=\dfrac{180-5x}{3}[/tex]

And

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto 3x=90[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto x=\dfrac{90}{3}[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto x=30[/tex]

Now

Putting value

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=\dfrac{180-5x}{3}[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=\dfrac{180-5(30)}{3}[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=\dfrac{180-150}{3}[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=\dfrac{30}{3}[/tex]

[tex]\\ \Large\sf\longmapsto y=10[/tex]

Length of a line segment with endpoints (3,-2) and (-3,4).

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Answer:

6squareroot2

Step-by-step explanation:

that's the answer I think

The graph of a linear function is given below. What is the zero of the function?

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Answer:

Need to see the problem, but the "zero of the function" is the x value when y=0.

Substitute '0' for y.

Solve for x

Answer: D

Step-by-step explanation:


What is the remainder when x2+ 3 is divided by x - 1?

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Answer:

Step-by-step explan

A line passes through the point (-4, -6) and has a slop of 5. Write an equation for this line.

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The answer is y=5x+14 where 5 is the slope and 14 is the value of b in equation y=mx+c

Can someone help me out plz

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Volume = πr²h

Radius = 3yd

Height = 12yd

Take π = 22/7

Volume = 22/7×3×3×12

= 2376/7

= 339.4285714yd³

Rounding off to nearest tenth

= 339.43yd³

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6v(2v + 3) 2) 7(−5v − 8)

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Answer:

6v(2v+3)2)7(-5v-8)

6v+2v-5v+3+2-8

3v-3

The scatterplot shows the average miles per gallon versus the age, in years, of a car.


A graph titled Fuel efficiency has age (years) on the x-axis, and miles per gallon on the y-axis. Points are at (1, 25), (2, 32), (3, 26), (4, 23), (5, 19), (6, 16), (7, 17), (8, 14), (9, 13), (10, 10).


If age was on the vertical axis and miles per gallon on the horizontal axis, how would the correlation change? Select all statements that would apply to the new correlation coefficient.


The sign would be the opposite.

The sign would remain the same.

It would have the same value.

It would become closer to 0.

It would become closer to 1.

(2 and 3) B,C

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Answer:

The sign would remain the same.

It would have the same value.

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Answer: b&c

The sign would remain the same.

It would have the same value.

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