Marissa is painting her rectangular patio, with the exception of a bench that does not need to be painted:

rectangle with a length of x plus 25 and width of x plus 15 with a rectangle in the bottom right corner labeled bench that has a length of 10 and width of 3

Write an equation to determine the area, A, of the patio that will be painted.

A = (x + 18)(x + 35)
A = (x + 15)(x + 25) + 30
A = (x + 5)(x + 22)
A = (x + 25)(x + 15) − 30

Farmers know that driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses the soil and injures future crops. here are data on the "penetrability" of the same type of soil at two levels of compression. penetrability is a measure of how much resistance plant roots will meet when they try to grow through the soil. compressed soil 2.85 2.66 3 2.82 2.76 2.81 2.78 3.08 2.94 2.86 3.08 2.82 2.78 2.98 3.00 2.78 2.96 2.90 3.18 3.16 intermediate soil 3.17 3.37 3.1 3.40 3.38 3.14 3.18 3.26 2.96 3.02 3.54 3.36 3.18 3.12 3.86 2.92 3.46 3.44 3.62 4.26 use the data, omitting the high outlier, to give a 95% confidence interval for the decrease in penetrability of compressed soil relative to intermediate soil. compute degrees of freedom using the conservative method. interval: to