What is the name for a function that can be written in the form y=mx+b, where x is the independent variable and mand bare real numbers? Hint: Its graph is a line.

Find the value of a. the diagram is not to scale. a quadrilateral is drawn. the upper and lower sides are parallel. the interior angle in the upper left corner is labeled a degrees. the angle in the upper right corner is labeled 113 degrees. the angle in the lower right corner is labeled b degrees. the angle in the lower left corner is labeled 36 degrees. a. 36 b. 144 c. 54 d. 126

What is the correlation coefficient for the data? don't forget to turn the diagnoisticon (in the catalog menu of the calculator). r = answer (round to the nearest thousandth)

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?