Challenge A cell phone plan costs $25.90 per month for 400 minutes of talk time. It costs an additional $0.08 per minute for each minute over 400 minutes. To get e-mail access, it costs 30% of
the price for 400 minutes of talk time. Your bill, which includes e-mail, is the same each month for 9
months. The total cost for all 9 months is $359.19. Write and solve an equation to find the number of
minutes of talk time you use each month.
Let m represent the number of minutes over 400 minutes each month. Which equation represents the
given situation?

Larry wants to buy some carpeting for his living room. the length of the room is 4 times the width and the total area of the room is 16 square meters. what is the length of the living room

Jobs and productivity! how do retail stores rate? one way to answer this question is to examine annual profits per employee. the following data give annual profits per employee (in units of 1 thousand dollars per employee) for companies in retail sales. assume σ ≈ 4.0 thousand dollars. 3.7 6.7 3.6 8.5 7.5 5.9 8.7 6.4 2.6 2.9 8.1 −1.9 11.9 8.2 6.4 4.7 5.5 4.8 3.0 4.3 −6.0 1.5 2.9 4.8 −1.7 9.4 5.5 5.8 4.7 6.2 15.0 4.1 3.7 5.1 4.2 (a) use a calculator or appropriate computer software to find x for the preceding data. (round your answer to two decimal places.) thousand dollars per employee (b) let us say that the preceding data are representative of the entire sector of retail sales companies. find an 80% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit -- thousand dollars upper limit -- thousand dollars (c) let us say that you are the manager of a retail store with a large number of employees. suppose the annual profits are less than 3 thousand dollars per employee. do you think this might be low compared with other retail stores? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are less than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. correct: your answer is correct. (d) suppose the annual profits are more than 6.5 thousand dollars per employee. as store manager, would you feel somewhat better? explain by referring to the confidence interval you computed in part (b). yes. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee are greater than those of other retail stores. no. this confidence interval suggests that the profits per employee do not differ from those of other retail stores. (e) find an 95% confidence interval for μ, the average annual profit per employee for retail sales. (round your answers to two decimal places.) lower limit 3.75 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars upper limit 6.41 incorrect: your answer is incorrect. thousand dollars

A23 – year – old male buys 100/300/100 liability insurance, collision insurance with a $100 deductible, and comprehensive insurance with a $250 deductible? what is his total annual premium? (a) $1142.00 (b) $1765.45 (c) $1770.10 (d) $1785.25