Mr. Jones is renovating his backyard, which includes extending his patio. The design drawn by his landscaper use a scale of 1 inch=3.5 feet. If the patio is 5 inches long on the diagram and the orginal patio is 9 feet long, by how many feet is he extending it?

What is the perimeter, p, of a rectangle that has a length of x + 8 and a width of y − 1? p = 2x + 2y + 18 p = 2x + 2y + 14 p = x + y − 9 p = x + y + 7

If your score on your next statistics test is converted to a z score, which of these z scores would you prefer: minus2.00, minus1.00, 0, 1.00, 2.00? why? a. the z score of 2.00 is most preferable because it is 2.00 standard deviations above the mean and would correspond to the highest of the five different possible test scores. b. the z score of 0 is most preferable because it corresponds to a test score equal to the mean. c. the z score of minus2.00 is most preferable because it is 2.00 standard deviations below the mean and would correspond to the highest of the five different possible test scores. d. the z score of minus1.00 is most preferable because it is 1.00 standard deviation below the mean and would correspond to an above average

Is the response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week question mark "response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week? " a discrete random variable, a continuous random variable, or not a random variable?