Skip designs tracks for amusement park rides. for a new design, the track will be elliptical. if the ellipse is placed on a large coordinate grid with its center at (0, 0), the equation (the drawing ^) models the path of the track. the units are given in yards. how long is the major axis of the track? explain how you found the distance.

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.