Anewspaper writer will write an article about the mean age of voters. she will estimate by selecting a sample of voters and calculating their mean age.
which method should the writer use to select the sample?

a) select 100 people who voted in the last election and are more than 30 years old
b) randomly select 100 people who voted in the last election
c) select 100 people who voted for the most popular candidate in the last election.
d) randomly select 100 people who read the newspaper

Which equation represents a circle with a center at (–3, –5) and a radius of 6 units? (x – 3)2 + (y – 5)2 = 6 (x – 3)2 + (y – 5)2 = 36 (x + 3)2 + (y + 5)2 = 6 (x + 3)2 + (y + 5)2 = 36

10 ! a train starts from grand city and travels toward belleville 388 miles away. at the same time, a train starts from belleville and runs at the rate of 47 miles per hour toward grand city. they pass each other 4 hours later. find the rate of the train from grand city.

Need now max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.