Houses with carpet are much quieter than houses with tile or hardwood floors because of sound wave a) absorption. b) diffraction. c) reflection. eliminate d) refraction.

Use the frequency histogram to complete the following parts. ​(a) identify the class with the​ greatest, and the class with the​ least, relative frequency. ​(b) estimate the greatest and least relative frequencies. ​(c) describe any patterns with the data. female fibula lengths 30.5 31.5 32.5 33.5 34.5 35.5 36.5 37.5 38.5 39.5 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 length (in centimeters) relative frequency a histogram titled "female fibula lengths" has a horizontal axis labeled "length in centimeters" from 30.5 to 39.5 in increments of 1 and a vertical axis labeled "relative frequency" from 0 to 0.25 in increments of 0.05. the histogram contains vertical bars of width 1, where one vertical bar is centered over each of the horizontal axis tick marks. the approximate heights of the vertical bars are listed as follows, where the label is listed first and the approximate height is listed second: 30.5, 0.02; 31.5, 0.04; 32.5, 0.05; 33.5, 0.13; 34.5, 0.22; 35.5, 0.25; 36.5, 0.13; 37.5, 0.06; 38.5, 0.09; 39.5, 0.01. ​(a) the class with the greatest relative frequency is nothing to nothing centimeters. ​(type integers or decimals. do not round. use ascending​ order.)

Clothing made of several thin layers of fabric with trapped air in between, often called ski clothing, is commonly used in cold climates because it is light, fashionable, and a very effective thermal insulator. so it is no surprise that such clothing has largely replaced thickand heavy old-fashioned coats. (a) consider a jacket made of five layers of 0.1-mm-thick synthetic fabric (k = 0.13 w/m·°c) with 1.5-mm-thick air space (k = 0.026 w/m·°c) between the layers. assuming the inner surface temperature of the jacket to be 28°c and the surface area to be 1.25 m2, determine the rate of heat loss through the jacket when the temperature of the outdoors is 0°c and the heat transfer coefficient at the outer surface is 25 w/m2·°c. (b) what would your response be if the jacket is made of a single layer of 0.5-mm-thick synthetic fabric? what should be the thickness of a wool fabric (k = 0.035 w/m·°c) if the person is to achieve the same level of thermal comfort wearing a thick wool coat instead of a five-layer ski jacket?

At an oceanside nuclear power plant, seawater is used as part of the cooling system. this raises the temperature of the water that is discharged back into the ocean. the amount that the water temperature is raised has a uniform distribution over the interval from 10° to 25° c. what is the standard deviation of the temperature increase?