To complete her senior thesis, Marianne conducted an experiment where she timed children, ages 8 to 15, to run the mile. She found her LSRL to be y = 17 – 0.5 x, where x is the child’s age and y is the time in minutes. Interpret the slope and y-intercept of this LSRL.

Find the value of the variable and the length of each secant segment.

Suppose sat writing scores are normally distributed with a mean of 497 and a standard deviation of 109. a university plans to award scholarships to students whose scores are in the top 2%. what is the minimum score required for the scholarship? round your answer to the nearest whole number, if necessary.

The swimming pool is open when the high temperature is higher than 20∘c. lainey tried to swim on monday and thursday (which was 3 days later). the pool was open on monday, but it was closed on thursday. the high temperature was 30∘c on monday, but decreased at a constant rate in the next 3 days. write an inequality to determine the rate of temperature decrease in degrees celsius per day, d, from monday to thursday.