A recent survey of 2625 elementary school children found that 28% of the children could be classified obese.
a. What is the population?
b. What is the sample?

Select all of the following expressions that are equal to 2.5.

The biologist has a second culture to examine. she knows that the population of the culture doubles every 15 minutes. after 1 hour and 15 minutes, her assistant found that 80,000 bacteria were present. a) what was the size of the initial population? b) predict the size of the culture at t=3 hours. what was the size of the population at 40 minutes? explain and justify your answers. c) create a graph of the population as a function of time. find an equation that can be used to predict the size of the population at any time t. d) examine the rate at which the bacteria culture is growing. how fast is the culture growing after 1 hour? after 1.5 hours? after 2 hours? use a time interval of h = 0.01 hours to estimate these rates. interpret these rates in terms of the context of the problem situation. how do these three rates compare?

Luigi is the first person to finish a 5k race and is standing 13 feet beyond the finish line. another runner, mario, is still running the race and has approximately 24 feet before he reaches the finish line. what is the distance between mario and luigi? explain through words, numbers or pictures how you found the answer.