Ablack piece of pipe is 8 1/3 centimeters long. a silver piece of pipe is 2 3/5 times longer. how long is the silver piece of pipe?

Human body temperatures have a mean of 98.20° f and a standard deviation of 0.62°. sally's temperature can be described by z = 1.4. what is her temperature? round your answer to the nearest hundredth. 99.07°f 97.33°f 99.60°f 100.45°f

Jobs and productivity! how do retail stores rate? one way to answer this question is to examine annual profits per employee. the following data give annual profits per employee (in units of 1 thousand dollars per employee) for companies in retail sales. assume σ ≈ 4.0 thousand dollars. 3.7 6.7 3.6 8.5 7.5 5.9 8.7 6.4 2.6 2.9 8.1 −1.9 11.9 8.2 6.4 4.7 5.5 4.8 3.0 4.3 −6.0 1.5 2.9 4.8 −1.7 9.4 5.5 5.8 4.7 6.2 15.0 4.1 3.7 5.1 4.2 (a) use a calculator or appropriate computer software to find x for the preceding data. (round your answer to two decimal places.) thousand dollars per employee (b) let us say that the preceding data are representative of the entire sector of retail sales companies. find an 80% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit -- thousand dollars upper limit -- thousand dollars (c) let us say that you are the manager of a retail store with a large number of employees. suppose the annual profits are less than 3 thousand dollars per employee. do you think this might be low compared with other retail stores? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are less than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. correct: your answer is correct. (d) suppose the annual profits are more than 6.5 thousand dollars per employee. as store manager, would you feel somewhat better? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are greater than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. (e) find an 95% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit 3.75 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars upper limit 6.41 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.