Your job is to decide which of a set of given numbers is the smallest. how many comparisons (of 2 numbers at a time) do you have to make if you have 8 numbers?

Barbara deposited $300 in the bank. if the bank pays her simple interest at the rate of 4 percent per year, how much money will she have in her account at the end of 9 months?

Atriangle has verticals at b(-3,0), c(2,-1), d(-1,2). which transformation would produce an image with verticals b”(-2,1), c”(3,2), d”(0,-1)?

According to a study conducted in 2015, 18% of shoppers said that they prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products. suppose that in a recent sample of 1500 shoppers, 315 stated that they prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products. at a 5% significance level, can you conclude that the proportion of all shoppers who currently prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products is higher than .18? use both the p-value and the critical-value approaches.