true or false, in deductive thinking, you start with a given set of rules and conditions and determine what must be true as a consequence.

Thales was an ancient philosopher familiar with similar triangles. one story about him says that he found the height of a pyramid by measuring its shadow and his own shadow at the same time. if the person is 5-ft tall, what is the height of the pyramid in the drawing?

The ideal weight of a nickel is 0.176 ounce. to check that there are 40 nickels in a roll, a bank weighs the roll and allows for an error of 0.015 ounce in total weight

The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.2 days and a standard deviation of 1.7 days. what is the probability of spending more than 2 days in recovery? (round your answer to four decimal places.)