Arectangular garden has a walk around it of width x. the garden is 18 ft by 13 ft. write a function representing the combined area, a(x), of the garden and walk. write as a polynomial in standard form.

Assume that 1400 births are randomly selected and 1378 of the births are girls. use subjective judgment to describe the number of girls as significantly high, significantly low, or neither significantly low nor significantly high. choose the correct answer below. a. the number of girls is neither significantly low nor significantly high. b. the number of girls is significantly high. c. the number of girls is significantly low. d. it is impossible to make a judgment with the given information.

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An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution