Joel is laying pipe for a sprinkler system before he plants his lawn. the lawn is a rectangle, 15 feet long and 8 feet wide. he needs to lay a piece of pipe that will be run along the diagonal of the lawn. it will divide the area of the lawn into two right triangles. what will be the length of that diagonal piece of pipe? a. 120 feet b. 17 feet c. 289 feet d. 23 feet

The probability that a u.s. resident has traveled to canada is 0.18 and to mexico is 0.09. a. if traveling to canada and traveling to mexico are independent events, what is the probability that a randomly-selected person has traveled to both? (page 109 in the book may ) b. it turns out that only 4% of u.s. residents have traveled to both countries. comparing this with your answer to part a, are the events independent? explain why or why not. (page 119 may ) c. using the %’s given, make a venn diagram to display this information. (don’t use your answer to part a.) d. using the conditional probability formula (page 114 in the book) and the %’s given, find the probability that a randomly-selected person has traveled to canada, if we know they have traveled to mexico.