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For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?

If it 8 inch candle burns at 7/10 inch per hour and a 6 inch candle burns at 1/5 inch per hour after how many hours would both candles be the same height

Given abc find the values of x and y. in your final answer, include all of your calculations.