A charcoal producer needs to make sure that his manufacturing process on average does not use more than one ton more or less of the average amount of biomass in order to make most efficient use of his equipment, labor, time, and other resources. The table lists the number of tons of biomass used per day over a 10-day period. What is the Mead Absolute Deviation of this data set? 1.56 14.3

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The fraction of defective integrated circuits produced in a photolithography process is being studied. a random sample of 300 circuits is tested, revealing 17 defectives. (a) calculate a 95% two-sided confidence interval on the fraction of defective circuits produced by this particular tool. round the answers to 4 decimal places. less-than-or-equal-to p less-than-or-equal-to (b) calculate a 95% upper confidence bound on the fraction of defective circuits. round the answer to 4 decimal places. p less-than-or-equal-to

For f(x) = 3x+1 and g(x) = x2 - 6, find (g/f)(x)

Emily is entering a bicycle race for charity. her mother pledges $0.90 for every 0.75 mile she bikes. if emily bikes 18 miles, how much will her mother donate?