Which set of data would you expect not to be symmetrical when displayed in a histogram?
a: the final exam scores of the 9th graders in a high school
b: the weights of children attending a birthday party
c: the ages of people participating in a middle school cross country meet
d: the outside temperature during the month of july

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.