2. Ms. May bought a new phone. Her initial payment was $50 and she will pay $35 each month until the
phone is paid off. Which equation best represents
the relationship between m, the monthly payments
Ms. May has made, and t, the total amount that she
paid the store?
A t= 50m + 35
C. t= 50m - 35
B. t= 35m + 50
D. t = 35m - 50

Abottled water distributor wants to estimate the amount of water contained in 1-gallon bottles purchased from a nationally known water bottling company. the water bottling company’s specifications state that the standard deviation of the amount of water is equal to 0.02 gallon. a random sample of 50 bottles is selected, and the sample mean amount of water per 1-gallon bottle is 0.995 gallon a. construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the popula-tion mean amount of water included in a 1-gallon bottle. b. on the basis of these results, do you think that the distributor has a right to complain to the water bottling company? why? c. must you assume that the population amount of water per bottle is normally distributed here? explain. d. construct a 95% confidence interval estimate. how does this change your answer to (b)?