Which statement about this story best shows it to be an allegory? A. The rocket boosters symbolize how we've come to respect
technology more than people.
B. The theme of the story is that humans and technology are both
key to our survival.
C. Asteroids show just how fragile the Earth is; there's very little we
can do about this threat.
D. The story is a funny mixture of suspense and comedy, and it ends
with a letdown.

Aplot of land is shaped like a quadrilateral. fences are built on the diagonal to divide the area into 4 sections. what is vi to the nearest tenth? gv = 6.55fv = 5.84vh = 3.27vi = ?

Handsome jack is buying a pony made of diamonds. the price of the pony is p dollars, and jack also has to pay a 25% diamond pony tax. which of the following expressions could represent how much jack pays in total for the pony?

Amachine that produces a special type of transistor (a component of computers) has a 2% defective rate. the production is considered a random process where each transistor is independent of the others. (a) what is the probability that the 10th transistor produced is the first with a defect? (b) what is the probability that the machine produces no defective transistors in a batch of 100? (c) on average, how many transistors would you expect to be produced before the first with a defect? what is the standard deviation? (d) another machine that also produces transistors has a 5% defective rate where each transistor is produced independent of the others. on average how many transistors would you expect to be produced with this machine before the first with a defect? what is the standard deviation? (e) based on your answers to parts (c) and (d), how does increasing the probability of an event a↵ect the mean and standard deviation of the wait time until success?