In order to set rates, an insurance company is trying to estimate the number of sick days that full time workers at an auto repair shop take per year. A previous study indicated that the standard deviation was 2.2 days. a) How large a sample must be selected if the company wants to be 98% confident that the true mean differs from the sample mean by no more than 1 day? b) Repeat part (a) using a 99% confidence interval. Which level of confidence requires a larger sample size? Explain.

Ariana starts with 100 milligrams of a radioactive substance. the amount of the substance decreases by 20% each week for a number of weeks, w. the expression 100(1−0.2)w finds the amount of radioactive substance remaining after w weeks. which statement about this expression is true? a) it is the difference between the initial amount and the percent decrease. b) it is the difference between the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks. c) it is the initial amount raised to the decay factor after w weeks. d) it is the product of the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks.

What fraction is equivalent to 0.46464646··· a. 46⁄999 b. 46⁄100 c. 46⁄99 d. 23⁄50

The area of the map is the product of the length and width. write and expression for the area as the product of the two binomials do not multiply