In five towns in the state of Idaho, a new recycling policy started. A sample of 5,000 homes found that 0.56 put out a recycling bin each week. Using a 95% confidence level, what is the estimate of the population proportion that recycles?
-between 55.65% and 56.69%
-between 54.97% and 57.03%
-between 54.65% and 56.35%
-between 55.31% and 56.35%

Ms. sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. the table shows her data. how does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest? word count tends to decrease as the score decreases. word count tends to increase as the score decreases. word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases. word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

Jane moves from a house with 71 square feet of closet space to an apartment with 45.44 square feet of closet space. what is the percentage decrease of jane’s closet space?

Andy wants to find the distance d across a river. he located points as shown in the figure, then use similar triangles to find that d = 223.5 feet. how can you tell without calculating that he must be wrong? tell what you think he did wrong and correct his error. round your answer to the nearest tenth if necessary. andy must have used the wrong . the distance d is actually feet.