A young mother is attempting to clean the house while her 2 children, ages 5 and 2, play in the living room. The older child begins feeding lego bricks to the younger at a constant rate. Below is a chart of how many bricks remain yet to be consumed after a given number of minutes. Time (minutes): 4 6 11 17

Bricks remaining: 75 69 54 36

How many lego bricks were there before the un-attentive mother began cleaning?

Formulate the indicated conclusion in nontechnical terms. be sure to address the original claim. the foundation chair for a hospital claims that the mean number of filled overnight beds is over 523, and she is therefore justified starting a funding campaign to add a wing to the hospital. assuming that a hypothesis test has been conducted and that the conclusion is failure to reject the null hypothesis, state the conclusion in nontechnical terms.