A contestant in a weight-loss competition wants to lose an average of at least 8 pounds per month during a five-month period. Based on the progress report, how many pounds must the contestant lose in the fifth month to meet the goal? Progress Report

Month Pounds Lost

1 12

2 9

3 5

4 8

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips. (a) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1100 and 1500 chocolate chips, inclusive? (b) what is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1125 chocolate chips? (c) what proportion of bags contains more than 1225 chocolate chips? (d) what is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1425 chocolate chips?

Find the number of real number solutions for the equation. x2 + 5x + 7 = 0 0 cannot be determined 1 2