Funding for many schools comes from taxes based on assessed values of local properties. people’s homes are assessed higher if they have extra features such as garages and swimming pools. assessment records in a certain school district indicate that 37% of the homes have garages and 3% have swimming pools. the addition rule might suggest, then, that 40% of residences have a garage or a pool. what’s wrong with that reasoning?

9.4.34  question   to estimate the height of a stone  figure, an observer holds a small square up to her eyes and walks backward from the figure. she stops when the bottom of the figure aligns with the bottom edge of the  square, and when the top of the figure aligns with the top edge of the square. her eye level is 1.811.81 m from the ground. she is 3.703.70 m from the figure. what is the height of the figure to the nearest hundredth of a  meter?