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Consider the system: y = 3x + 5 y = ax + b what values for a and b make the system inconsistent? what values for a and b make the system consistent and dependent? explain

You were told that the amount of time lapsed between consecutive trades on the new york stock exchange followed a normal distribution with a mean of 15 seconds. you were also told that the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades to fall between 16 to 17 seconds was 13%. the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades would fall below 13 seconds was 7%. what is the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades will be between 14 and 15 seconds?

Two friends are reading books. jimmy reads a book with 21,356 words. his friend bob reads a book with one-and-a-half times as many words. which expression represents the number of words bob reads?