The reflecting dish of a parabolic microphone has a cross-section in the shape of a parabola. the microphone itself is placed on the focus of the parabola. if the parabola is 24 inches wide and 9 inches deep, how far from the vertex should the microphone be placed?

Afactory makes propeller drive shafts for ships. a quality assurance engineer at the factory needs to estimate the true mean length of the shafts. she randomly selects four drive shafts made at the factory, measures their lengths, and finds their sample mean to be 1000 mm. the lengths are known to follow a normal distribution whose standard deviation is 2 mm. calculate a 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of the shafts. input your answers for the margin of error, lower bound, and upper bound.

Describe a situation that you could represent with the inequality x< 17

Jason went to an arcade to play video games. he paid $2 for every 11 tokens he bought. he spent a total of $16 on tokens. which equation can be used to determine,t, the number lf tokens jason bought