A plant has an initial height of 3 inches and grows at a constant rate of 2 inches each month. A second plant that also grows at a constant rate has an initial height of 1 inch and is 29 inches tall after 1 year. After how many months are the plants the same height?

An automobile assembly line operation has a scheduled mean completion time, μ, of 12 minutes. the standard deviation of completion times is 1.6 minutes. it is claimed that, under new management, the mean completion time has decreased. to test this claim, a random sample of 33 completion times under new management was taken. the sample had a mean of 11.2 minutes. assume that the population is normally distributed. can we support, at the 0.05 level of significance, the claim that the mean completion time has decreased under new management? assume that the standard deviation of completion times has not changed.