A maple tree casts a shadow that is 19 feet long. A nearby sign post casts a shadow that is 10 feet long. If the maple tree is 12 feet tall,
how tall is the sign post, to the nearest tenth of a foot?

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?