2. Due to its weakening steel industry, Russell County has been experiencing population decline of 5% every year. The current population is 46,000 people. This can be modeled using the function y = 46000(0.95)"
Assuming the trend continues, what will the population be in 5 years?

In triangle abc, the length of side ab is 12 cm, the length of side bc is 5 cm, and the length of side ca is 9 cm. find the measure of angle a using the law of cosines.

"you know, playing tennis is healthier than watching a tennis match on television," katya remarked to her couch potato brother. in this sentence, healthier is a/an a. superlative. b. comparative. c. positive form. d. adverb.

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?