Consider the matrix:
What is its determinant?

Does the determinant depend on the variables? Make a conjecture.

Arestaurant gives out a scratch-off card to every customer. the probability that a customer will win a prize from a scratch-off card is 25%. design and conduct a simulation using random numbers to find the experimental probability that a customer will need more than 3 cards in order to win a prize. justify the model for your simulation, and conduct at least 10 trials.

Prove (a) cosh2(x) − sinh2(x) = 1 and (b) 1 − tanh 2(x) = sech 2(x). solution (a) cosh2(x) − sinh2(x) = ex + e−x 2 2 − 2 = e2x + 2 + e−2x 4 − = 4 = . (b) we start with the identity proved in part (a): cosh2(x) − sinh2(x) = 1. if we divide both sides by cosh2(x), we get 1 − sinh2(x) cosh2(x) = 1 or 1 − tanh 2(x) = .

One of every 20 customers reports poor customer service on your company’s customer satisfaction survey. you have just created a new process that should cut the number of poor customer service complaints in half. what percentage of customers would you expect to report poor service after this process is implemented? 1.) 5% 2.) 10% 3.) 2% 4.) 2.5%