There are 327 official ports of entry in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security selects 15 ports of entry at random to be audited for compliance with screening procedures of incoming travelers through the primary and secondary vehicle and pedestrian lanes. What kind of sample is this (simple random, systematic, stratified, cluster)?

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

Brian, chris, and damien took a math test that had 20 questions. the number of questions brian got right is 14 more than the number of questions chris got right. damien correctly answered 2 less than the number of questions chris answered correctly. if brian and damien have the same score, which statement is true?

Assume that 1400 births are randomly selected and 1378 of the births are girls. use subjective judgment to describe the number of girls as significantly high, significantly low, or neither significantly low nor significantly high. choose the correct answer below. a. the number of girls is neither significantly low nor significantly high. b. the number of girls is significantly high. c. the number of girls is significantly low. d. it is impossible to make a judgment with the given information.