An organic farm controls pests with the number of praying mantis larvae released on the farm by the equation: p(n) = 1000 – 2.5n

Where n is the number of larvae released per acre and р is the number of pests per acre.
Which of these statements
most accurately describes this function?

A. As n gets to some value, p should go to zero.

B. The pests can only be minimized, never exterminated.

C. More praying mantis larvae lead to more pests.

D. Organic farming can never be cost effective.

When eating out, record the total cost of your meal (before tip) and the tip that you left. determine the percent of the cost of the meal that you left as a tip.

The perimeter of a stage is 116 feet. it is 17 feet wide. how long is it?

Abottled water distributor wants to estimate the amount of water contained in 1-gallon bottles purchased from a nationally known water bottling company. the water bottling company’s specifications state that the standard deviation of the amount of water is equal to 0.02 gallon. a random sample of 50 bottles is selected, and the sample mean amount of water per 1-gallon bottle is 0.995 gallon a. construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the popula-tion mean amount of water included in a 1-gallon bottle. b. on the basis of these results, do you think that the distributor has a right to complain to the water bottling company? why? c. must you assume that the population amount of water per bottle is normally distributed here? explain. d. construct a 95% confidence interval estimate. how does this change your answer to (b)?