Three jet-skis in a 300 kilometre handicap race leave at two hour intervals. Jet-ski 1 leaves first and has an average speed of 25 kilometres per hour for the entire race. Jet-ski 2 leaves two hours later and
has an average speed of 30 kilometres per hour for the entire race. Jet-ski 3 leaves last, two hours after
jet-ski 2 and has an average speed of 40 kilometres per hour for the entire race.
a. Sketch a graph to show each jet-ski's journey on the one set of axes.
b. Determine who wins the race.
c. Check your findings algebraically and describe what happened to each jet-ski during the course of the race.

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.