A farmer wants to determine which two brands of cow feed is best for the cows on a farm. Before using one of the feeds on all the cows, the farmer decides to conduct an experiment using 36 individual cows. Which of the two plans for randomly assigning the treatments should the farmer use?

answer: 4  

the square root of 16 is 4. it is a very simple mathematic concept. a square root when a number multiplied by itself will result in a number. here, the number 16 comes when 4 is multiplied by 4. hence the square root of 16 is 4. you can always figure out a square root by the inverse operation of squaring.  

the cost function, c(x), is the total cost of manufacturing x units of the product. how many units must the company produce and sell if they wish to make a b. if the company produces and sells 2000 units, would they obtain a profit or loss?

set the two equations for y equal to each other. solve for x. this will be the x-coordinate for the point of intersection. use this x-coordinate and plug it into either of the original equations for the lines and solve for y.