Some standardized tests, such as the sat test, incorporate a penalty for wrong answers. for example, a multiple-choice question with five possible answers will have 1 point awarded for a correct answer and 1/4 point lost for an incorrect answer. find the expected number of points (mean) received for a multiple-choice question with five possible answers when a student just guesses at random.

Aplane flies around trip to philadelphia it flies to philadelphia at 220 miles per hour and back home with a tailwind at 280 miles per hour if the total trip takes 6.5 hours how many miles does the plane fly round trip

You were told that the amount of time lapsed between consecutive trades on the new york stock exchange followed a normal distribution with a mean of 15 seconds. you were also told that the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades to fall between 16 to 17 seconds was 13%. the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades would fall below 13 seconds was 7%. what is the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades will be between 14 and 15 seconds?

Handsome jack is buying a pony made of diamonds. the price of the pony is p dollars, and jack also has to pay a 25% diamond pony tax. which of the following expressions could represent how much jack pays in total for the pony?