Megan's backyard deck cost $44.00 per square yard to build. The deck is 8 yards wide and 12 yards long. How much did it cost to build the deck?

For a school newspaper article, cienna conducted a survey to find out students’ favorite subjects. she polled all the students in mrs. lopez’s advanced dance class. why is her data likely to be skewed? honors dance students are more likely to enjoy dance than students in the general population, so dance may be overrepresented. cienna should have interviewed all the students in the school to get more accurate data. honors dance students are more likely to enjoy dance than students in the general population, so dance will be underrepresented. cienna should have interviewed only every other student in the class to avoid having too many people.

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.

According to a study conducted in 2015, 18% of shoppers said that they prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products. suppose that in a recent sample of 1500 shoppers, 315 stated that they prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products. at a 5% significance level, can you conclude that the proportion of all shoppers who currently prefer to buy generic instead of name-brand products is higher than .18? use both the p-value and the critical-value approaches.