Michael's father brought him a 16-foot board to cut into shelves for his bedroom. michael plans to cut the board into 11 equal size lengths for his shelves.

the saw blade that michael will use to cut the board will change the length of the board by -0.125 inches for each cut. how will this affect the total length of the board?

There are two major tests of readiness for college: the act and the sat. act scores are reported on a scale from 1 to 36. the distribution of act scores in recent years has been roughly normal with mean µ = 20.9 and standard deviation s = 4.8. sat scores are reported on a scale from 400 to 1600. sat scores have been roughly normal with mean µ = 1026 and standard deviation s = 209. reports on a student's act or sat usually give the percentile as well as the actual score. the percentile is just the cumulative proportion stated as a percent: the percent of all scores that were lower than this one. tanya scores 1260 on the sat. what is her percentile (± 1)?