What Is the Period (In Hours)of a Satellite Circling Mars

question 27

Multiple Choice

What is the period (in hours) of a satellite circling Mars 100 km above the planet's surface? The mass of Mars is 6.42 × 10²³ kg,its radius is 3.40 × 10⁶ m,and G = 6.67 × 10^-11 N ∙ m²/kg².

• A)1.75 h
• B)1.25 h
• C)1.15 h
• D)1.00 h
• E)1.45 h

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Z-Value

A statistical measure that quantifies the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a data set.

Standard Error

A measure of the statistical accuracy of an estimate, equal to the standard deviation of the theoretical distribution of a large population of such estimates.

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A symbol often used to represent a sample size or the number of observations or units in a dataset.

Sampling Distribution

The spectrum of probabilities for a predetermined statistic, collected from a random sample.