The vet told Jake that his dog, Rocco, who weighed 55 pounds, needed to lose 10 pounds. Jake started walking Rocco every day and changed the amount of food he was feeding him. Rocco lost half a pound the first week. Jake wants to determine Rocco’s weight in pounds, p, after w weeks if Rocco continues to lose weight based on his vet’s advice. The equation of the scenario is . The values of p must be

Acookie manufacturer advertised that every bag of a certain type of cookie contained at least 1000 chocolate chips. a consumer group bought 15 bags of cookies from a variety of locations, dissolved the cookies in water and hand-counted the number of chocolate chips in each bag. the average number of chocolate chips was 1161.6 and the standard deviation 117.6. a26. assuming a normal distribution, a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of cookies in each bag is (a) 1108.37 (b) 1108.13 (c) 1102.09 (d) 1096.86 to 1226.34 to 1214.83 to 1215.07 to 1221.11 (e) 1096.47 to 1226.73