Mr. and mrs. pierotti are remodeling their kitchen. they need 9 square yards of covering for the floor. jackson interiors quoted them a price of $81 for 9 square yards of linoleum. carpet master told them that carpeting would cost $6 per square yard. which is cheaper—the linoleum or the carpeting?

If x=-3 is the only x-intercept of the graph of a quadratic equation, which statement best discribes the discriminant of the equation?

Abox contains 1 plain pencil and 4 pens. a second box contains 5 color pencils and 5 crayons. one item from each box is chosen at random. what is the probability that a plain pencil from the first box and a color pencil from the second box are selected? write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Assume that 1400 births are randomly selected and 1378 of the births are girls. use subjective judgment to describe the number of girls as significantly high, significantly low, or neither significantly low nor significantly high. choose the correct answer below. a. the number of girls is neither significantly low nor significantly high. b. the number of girls is significantly high. c. the number of girls is significantly low. d. it is impossible to make a judgment with the given information.