At the museum, you have 3 hours to walk around before lunch. There are 6 exhibits you want to see. It will take you about 5 minutes to walk to each of the exhibits. If you want to spend an equal amount of time at each exhibit, create an equation, using "t" to represent the amount of time at each exhibit.

there is only one way to arrange all the eight relative to each other because they are not distinct. we have

now there are nine places to place an (and not more than one in one place).   because we have four symbols, we need to choose four of these nine places to insert an . order does not matter because the are not distinct.

thus there are 1 · c(9,4) ways, or, if we calculate it,

thus there are 126 ways to form such "words."

the correct answer is b.

this is because an open circle means < or > & since the line goes left it is < -3.

the next one has a filled circle so it can only be ≥ or ≤ and since the line goes right from 1 it is ≥ 1

hope that