Part A: Create an example of a polynomial in standard form. How do you know it is in standard form? (5 points) Part B: Explain the closure property as it relates to polynomials. Give an example. (5 points)

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Sam makes his sales calls according to a pattern. he travels either north or south depending on the calendar. some of his past trips were as follows: on february 17, april 24, june 10, september 19, and november 3 he drove north. on february 28, may 25, august 22, november 20, and december 18, he drove south. describe sams' pattern. in which direction will sam drive on oct4 and oct 24?

Afactory makes propeller drive shafts for ships. a quality assurance engineer at the factory needs to estimate the true mean length of the shafts. she randomly selects four drive shafts made at the factory, measures their lengths, and finds their sample mean to be 1000 mm. the lengths are known to follow a normal distribution whose standard deviation is 2 mm. calculate a 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of the shafts. input your answers for the margin of error, lower bound, and upper bound.

Two rectangular prisms have the same volume. the area of the base of the blue prism is 418 4 1 8 square units. the area of the base of the red prism is one-half that of the blue prism. which statement is true?