Questions from Financial Algebra

Q: The Vacation Times website rates recreational vehicle campgrounds using integers from 0

The Vacation Times website rates recreational vehicle campgrounds using integers from 0 to 15. Last year they rated over 1,000 campsites. The ratings were normally distributed with mean 7.6 and standa...

Q: Tesa lives in a major city. Her employer pays for her

Tesa lives in a major city. Her employer pays for her round trip taxicab fare from home to work each day. She must keep receipts for each trip and turn them in at the end of each month for reimburseme...

Q: A certain amusement park ride requires riders to be at least 48

A certain amusement park ride requires riders to be at least 48 inches tall. If the heights of children in a summer camp are normally distributed with mean 52 and standard deviation 2.5, how many of t...

Q: What z-score on the Normal Curve table has an area

What z-score on the Normal Curve table has an area of 0.8849 to its left?

Q: What z-score on the Normal Curve table has an area

What z-score on the Normal Curve table has an area of 0.6808 to its right?

Q: Travel Times Journal found that the average per person cost of a

Travel Times Journal found that the average per person cost of a 10-day trip along the Pacific coast, per person, is $1,015. This includes transportation, food, lodging, and entertainment. a. If the d...

Q: The school nurse at West Side Elementary School weighs all of the

The school nurse at West Side Elementary School weighs all of the 230 children by the end of September. She finds that the students’ weights are normally distributed with mean 98 and standard deviatio...

Q: Each month you have $200 automatically deposited from your checking account

Each month you have $200 automatically deposited from your checking account into a discretionary savings account. Your plan is to leave the money in this account for the next 10 years in order to use...

Q: Describe each of the following correlation coefficients using the terms strong,

Describe each of the following correlation coefficients using the terms strong, moderate, or weak and negative or positive. a. r = –0.19 b. r = –0.93 c. r = 0.57 d. r = 0.0999 e. r = –0.97 f. r = –0.4...

Q: Lori created a scatter plot where the explanatory variable was the side

Lori created a scatter plot where the explanatory variable was the side of a square, and the response variable was the perimeter of the square. Is the data positively or negatively correlated? Explain...