A coordinate grid with 2 lines. The first line passes through (negative 4, negative 3), (0, negative 3), and (4, negative 3). The second line passes through (0, negative 5) and (2, 4). The lines appear to intersect at about one-half, negative 3. Solve the system of equations algebraically. Verify your answer using the graph.

y = 4x – 5

y = –3

What is the solution to the system of equations?

((StartFraction one-fourth EndFraction, negative 3), –3)
((StartFraction one-half EndFraction, negative 3), –3)
(–3, (negative 3, StartFraction 2 over 3 EndFraction))

60 musicians applied for a job at a music school. 14 of the musicians play both guitar and drums. what is the probability that the applicant who gets the job plays drums or guitar?

Our star pitcher, foster enlight, can throw a pitch so fast that it gets to the catcher’s mitt before it leaves foster’s fingers! if the team wins a game then the probability that foster was pitching is 0.8 but only if foster had at least one day’s rest since his last pitching assignment. if foster does not have a day off and the team still wins, the probability that foster was pitching drops by half of what it was on the previous day. if the team wins three games in succession from the toronto tachyons and foster pitched in game #2, what is the probability that he pitched in one or more of the other games? (assume that foster did not pitch on the day before the first game of this three game series.)

When booking personal travel by air, one is always interested in actually arriving at one’s final destination even if that arrival is a bit late. the key variables we can typically try to control are the number of flight connections we have to make in route, and the amount of layover time we allow in those airports whenever we must make a connection. the key variables we have less control over are whether any particular flight will arrive at its destination late and, if late, how many minutes late it will be. for this assignment, the following necessarily-simplified assumptions describe our system of interest: the number of connections in route is a random variable with a poisson distribution, with an expected value of 1. the number of minutes of layover time allowed for each connection is based on a random variable with a poisson distribution (expected value 2) such that the allowed layover time is 15*(x+1). the probability that any particular flight segment will arrive late is a binomial distribution, with the probability of being late of 50%. if a flight arrives late, the number of minutes it is late is based on a random variable with an exponential distribution (lamda = .45) such that the minutes late (always rounded up to 10-minute values) is 10*(x+1). what is the probability of arriving at one’s final destination without having missed a connection? use excel.