Explain the value of statistics and other data to positive economics and to normative economics

Geologists know that potassium-40 decays to argon-40, with a half-life of 1.3 billion years. if an analysis of a feldspar crystal in a sample of granite shows that 75 percent of the potassium-40 atoms have decayed to form argon-40, what is the age of the granite

Afootpath is to be constructed in a park in the shape of a parallelogram. when a coordinate plane is laid over a map of the park, the vertices of the footpath are (-4,2) (8,2) (11,7) and (-1,7). what is the perimeter of this path

Dry land planting can benefit the environment by reducing the need for tillagate