What is a stock index?

a.
the average change in a stock’s price over a given period.
b.
an indicator of market strength based on the prices of several specific stocks.
c.
a listing of all stocks available in a specific market.
d.
the current number of stocks in your portfolio.

What is the logarithmic function modeled by the following table? x f(x) 9 2 27 3 81 4

Triangle jkl was dilated using the rule dm, 1/3 the image, triangle j’ k’ l’ is the result of the dilation. a.5 units b.7.5 units c.10 units d.12.5 units

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?