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Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

Afurniture manufacturer produces chairs and sofas. each chair requires 10 yards of fabric, and each sofa requires 20 yards of fabric. the manufacturer has 300 yards of fabric available. to fulfill orders, the number of sofas must be at least twice the number of chairs. let x be the number of chairs and y the number of sofas. which inequalities are described in the problem? check all of the boxes that apply

1/2+1/6-3/4 simplify the given expression leaving the answer in improper fraction form.