Point (4, 1). they need to fetch water from the river whose curve is described by the equation y 2 − x 3 + x − 3 = 0 and then return to camp. at what point on the river should they get their water in order to minimize their distance travelled? you may need to use matlab and or mathematica.

Taylor wants to paint his rectangular deck that is 41 feet long and 24 feet wide. a gallon of paint covers about 350 square feet. how many gallons of paint will taylor need to cover the entire deck? round your answers to two decimal places when necessary.

Now, martin can reasonably guess that the standard deviation for the entire population of people at the mall during the time of the survey is $1.50. what is the 95% confidence interval about the sample mean? interpret what this means in the context of the situation where 95 people were surveyed and the sample mean is $8. use the information in this resource to construct the confidence interval.

Aconstruction worker needs to put a rectangular window in the side of a building he knows from measuring that the top and bottom of the window have a width of 8bfeet and the sides have a length of 15 feet he also measured one diagonal to be 17 feet what is the length of the other diagonal