For an activity in class, students used pieces of string to measure roads on a map. They used a map scale to determine the distance between two cities. One group measured the distance between Fort Myers and Miami on a Florida state map. The string distance was 7.75 inches, which represents a real-life distance of about 155 miles. Another group measured the distance between Tampa and Orlando on the same map and found that distance to be 4.25 inches. What is the real-life distance to the nearest mile between Tampa and Orlando?

the answer   is 200

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this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

i get you, what you should do is think of the positive things that would come out of it. it will make yours parents proud and raise your grade. you should always try and if you can't focus tell the teacher.

16

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600,000,000,000, or 6e14

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