You plant an 8 inch bamboo plant and a 14 inch cactus plant. The bamboo grows at a rate of 6 inches per year while the cactus grows at 4 inches per year. Write a system of linear equations to represent
this situation.

(b) Graph the equations. Explain what the solution
means in the context of this problem.

(c) After how many years will the bamboo plant be
taller than the cactus?

The edge of a cube was found to be 30 cm with a possible error in measurement of 0.4 cm. use differentials to estimate the maximum possible error, relative error, and percentage error in computing the volume of the cube and the surface area of the cube. (round your answers to four decimal places.) (a) the volume of the cube maximum possible error cm3 relative error percentage error % (b) the surface area of the cube maximum possible error cm2 relative error percentage error %

(20 points) a bank has been receiving complaints from real estate agents that their customers have been waiting too long for mortgage confirmations. the bank prides itself on its mortgage application process and decides to investigate the claims. the bank manager takes a random sample of 20 customers whose mortgage applications have been processed in the last 6 months and finds the following wait times (in days): 5, 7, 22, 4, 12, 9, 9, 14, 3, 6, 5, 15, 10, 17, 12, 10, 9, 4, 10, 13 assume that the random variable x measures the number of days a customer waits for mortgage processing at this bank, and assume that x is normally distributed. 2a. find the sample mean of this data (x ě…). 2b. find the sample variance of x. find the variance of x ě…. for (c), (d), and (e), use the appropriate t-distribution 2c. find the 90% confidence interval for the population mean (îľ). 2d. test the hypothesis that îľ is equal to 7 at the 95% confidence level. (should you do a one-tailed or two-tailed test here? ) 2e. what is the approximate p-value of this hypothesis?

Let f(x) = 1/x^2 (a) use the definition of the derivatve to find f'(x). (b) find the equation of the tangent line at x=2