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A student has a box containing only two kinds of bills: 6 Canadian dollar bills and y Australian dollar bills. If more than $$\frac{3}{8}$$ of the bills in the box are Australian dollar bills, what is the least number of bills that the student could have in the box?
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The median of the scores on exam 1 was how much higher or lower than the median of the scores on exam 2?
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One of the 15 students had a total score of 182 on the two exams. What is the weighted mean of that student's two scores if the score on exam 1 has a weight of 40 percent and the score on exam 2 has a weight of 60 percent?
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A pair of students is to be chosen to write a certain report, and each of the chosen students must have a total score of 170 or higher on the two exams. How many different pairs of students meet this requirement?
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The table above shows the predicted high temperatures, in degrees Fahrenheit, for two weeks in City X. Based on the information given, which of the following changes to the temperatures would cause a change in the median of the temperatures for the two-week period?
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Row A: 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Row B: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
One number is to be selected from row A and another from row B. The sum of the two numbers will have how many possible values?
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It is surprising that this copiously documented history of the New Deal has been criticized for not being sufficiently ____________.
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It is puzzling that postmodern thinkers have won over so many followers with oracular pronouncements about the "death" or the "deconstruction" of the human subject, when the fact that we are selves, finite but real, appears ____________.
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One example of a (i)____________ occurs in a vacuum state in quantum field theory. There, "something" and "nothing" are (ii)____________: it is entirely consistent for there to be nothing, and nonetheless for stuff to show up when we try to detect it.
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In happier times, ours is a raucous, rude, cacophonous city, ____________ cursing, good-natured complaining, and laughing aloud.
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One of the reporter's central themes is that health care concerns were a secondary consideration to the reformers in their drive to limit if not completely ____________ the consumption of cigarettes.
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1 ≤ x ≤ 6
-2 ≤ y ≤ 1
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The results of the latest survey being ____________, earlier results gave researchers little relevant experience for the new data's interpretation.
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Despite the fact that the political scientist's negative forecast about the country's future is altogether (i)____________, its believability is (ii)____________ by her unrelenting pessimism.
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It is often the case that a certain intellectual advantage may be found by being (i)____________ an established field of knowledge, but even if you accept the argument about the importance of (ii)____________ thinking, it is hardly the only significant thinking there is.
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The power of laughter to affect the perceived funniness of television programming is (i)____________: most researchers have found that the inclusion of laughter on a program's soundtrack (ii)____________ the overall perception of humor, although it appears that it can (iii)____________ humor at specific points and thus boost the total comic appeal of the program.
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The primary function of the highlighted sentence is to
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The author implies that red fire ants in the United States differ from red fire ants in South America in the extent to which ants in the two environments
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Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
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According to the passage, autobiography differs from the slave narrative in that autobiographers
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