The public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," features news from the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, MN, home to many Norwegian bachelor farmers, and where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." Suppose average means average for the town. Such a town could not possibly exist, because (select all that apply) a. not all women are strong

b. not all the children can be above average

c. not all Norwegian bachelor farmers are good looking

d. half the children must be below average

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?

You eat 8 strawberries and your friend eats 12 strawberries from a bowl. there are 20 strawberries left. which equation and solution give the original number of strawberries?

Pls! does anybody know a shortcut for answering these types of questions in the future?