The local newspaper has letters to the editor from 60 people. If this number represents 8% of all of the newspaper's readers, how many readers does the newspaper have?

If a and −a are numbers on the number line, which expression must give the distance between them? a) 0 b) a c) |2a| d) |a|

Astudent was asked to find the square of 7x+3. the student quickly wrote (7x+3)^3= 49x^2+9. identify the student's error and provide the correct answer.

Farmers know that driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses the soil and injures future crops. here are data on the "penetrability" of the same type of soil at two levels of compression. penetrability is a measure of how much resistance plant roots will meet when they try to grow through the soil. compressed soil 2.85 2.66 3 2.82 2.76 2.81 2.78 3.08 2.94 2.86 3.08 2.82 2.78 2.98 3.00 2.78 2.96 2.90 3.18 3.16 intermediate soil 3.17 3.37 3.1 3.40 3.38 3.14 3.18 3.26 2.96 3.02 3.54 3.36 3.18 3.12 3.86 2.92 3.46 3.44 3.62 4.26 use the data, omitting the high outlier, to give a 95% confidence interval for the decrease in penetrability of compressed soil relative to intermediate soil. compute degrees of freedom using the conservative method. interval: to