Battery life for a hand-held computer is normally distrituted and has a population standard deviation of 7 hours. Suppose you need to estimate a confidence interval estimate at the 95% level of confidence for the mean life of these batteries. Determine the sample size required to have a margin of error of 0.585 hours. Round up to the nearest whole number.

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation