Susan is attending a talk at her son's school. There are 8 rows of 10 chairs where 54 parents are sitting. Susan notices that every parent is either sitting on their own or next to just one other person.
What is the largest possible number of adjacent empty chairs in a single row at that talk?

Mickey needs to cut pieces of ribbon that are each 1 meter long tie onto balloons. if he has 8 pieces of ribbon that are each 1 dekameter long. how many 1 meter pieces of ribbon can he cut

Find the equation of the ellipse with the following properties. the ellipse with foci at (0, 6) and (0, -6); y-intercepts (0, 8) and (0, -8).edit: the answer is x^2 over 28 + y^2 over 64 = 1

For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?