The following data give the hours spent studying per week by nine students. 12, 16, 7, 22, 11, 18, 7, 25, 16. (a) find the mean, median and mode. (b) find the range, variance and standard deviation

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".