To protect the bottom of a beaker or flask from flame; i
to support a beaker or flask on a ring clamp

An insurance company wants to know if the average speed at which men drive cars is higher than that of women drivers. the company took a random sample of 27 cars driven by men on a highway and found the mean speed to be 72 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 2.2 miles per hour. another sample of 18 cars driven by women on the same highway gave a mean speed of 68 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 2.5 miles per hour. assume that the speeds at which all men and all women drive cars on this highway are both approximately normally distributed with unknown and unequal population standard deviations.

Abug is 12 cm from the center of a turntable that is rotating with a frequency of 45 rev/min . what minimum coefficient friction is required so that the bug stays on the turntable?

What is a possible result of higher air temperature caused by global warming