The Time to Complete a Project Is Inversely Proportional to the Number

question 29

Multiple Choice

The time to complete a project is inversely proportional to the number of people who are working on the project. A class project can be completed by 3 students in 24 days. In order to finish the project in 6 days, how many more students should the group add?

• A) 15 more students
• B) 12 more students
• C) 18 more students
• D) 9 more students

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

A symmetrically shaped probability distribution around the mean, indicating a greater frequency of occurrences for data points close to the mean versus those that are remote.

Average Starting Salary

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Standard Deviation

is a measure of the amount of variability or spread in a set of data.

Normally Distributed

This describes a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.