I NEED HELP Solving quadratics

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?

George has seven boxes of five pencils. giulio three boxes of eight pencils. one of the boys arranges all his pencils equally into two groups. was this george or giulio how many are in each group explain

How do you create a data set with 8 points in it that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 1?