One Side of a Triangle Is Twice the Shortest Side

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Essay

One side of a triangle is twice the shortest side. The third side is 3 feet more than the shortest side. The perimeter is 11 feet. Find all three sides.

Recognize the effect of confirmation bias and belief perseverance on information processing.

Understand the evolutionary perspective on human reasoning and its adaptiveness to natural problems.

Understand and describe the concept of "manual babbling" in deaf babies as compared to verbal babbling in hearing babies.

Recognize how cognitive psychology relates thought processes to solving real-world problems.

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Definitions:

Means

The average values obtained by dividing the sum of all observations by the number of observations.

Bootstrapping Process

A statistical resampling method used to approximate the distribution of a statistic by repeatedly sampling with replacement from the observed data.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, represented by the square root of the variance.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution of all possible sample means or proportions, given a sample size, from a population.