You and three others are to place bids for an object, with the highest bid winning. If you win, you plan to immediately sell the object for 10 thousand dollars. How much should you bid to maximize your expected profit if you believe that the bids of the others can be regarded as being independent and uniformly distributed between 7 and 11 thousand dollars

Monthly water bills for a city have a mean of $108.43 and a standard deviation of $32.09. find the probability that a randomly selected bill will have an amount greater than $155, which the city believes might indicate that someone is wasting water. would a bill that size be considered unusual?

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?

The statements below can be used to prove that the triangles are similar. ? △abc ~ △xyz by the sss similarity theorem. which mathematical statement is missing? ∠b ≅ ∠y ∠b ≅ ∠z