More than 4,000 years ago, people in ancient Babylonia used math to calculate how much land to use for farming and how much of each crop they harvested. They also used math to calculate how much tax to charge people. Today, we use algebraic tools such as writing and solving equations, systems of equations, inequalities, and systems of inequalities to help us measure and interpret real-world scenarios. What twenty-first century tasks do these tools help us manage?

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.