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• under our constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. what is one power of the federal government?
  
• juan jogs each day from his house to a local park, and then he jogs back along the same route. on his way to the park, he averages 4 miles per hour. on his way home, he averages 6 miles per hour. if the total trip takes 1 and one-half hours, which equation can be used to find x, the distance in miles from juan’s house to the park? distance (mi) rate (mi/hr) time (hr) trip to park x 4 mph trip to home x 6 mph startfraction x over 4 endfraction + startfraction x over 6 endfraction = 1 startfraction x over 4 endfraction + startfraction x over 6 endfraction = 1 and one-half 4 x + 6 x = 1 and one-half 4 x + 6 x = 1
  
• a researcher for a polling organization used a random sample of 1,540 residents in a city to construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the proportion of voters who would vote for candidate jones. the resulting confidence interval was 0.480 ± 0.025. what is the correct interpretation of the confidence interval? a proportion of 0.455 and 0.505 of respondents think that jones has a 95% chance to win. if 95% of all the voters voted, then jones would receive between 45.5% and 50.5% of the votes. the polling organization can be 95% confident that the interval from 0.455 to 0.505 captures the proportion of all city voters who would vote for jones. if we repeatedly sampled voters from this city, taking samples of size 1,540, approximately 95% of those samples would have between 45.5% and 50.5% voting for jones.
  
• which two of the following sentences from the article include central ideas of the article?
  
• what is the central idea of this excerpt? the sun and stars are lovelier than jewels and shine just as bright. even fine cloth is made from the thread of simple sheep’s wool. gold is a big pile of metal and should not give anyone more power. utopians are surprised by the great value placed on jewels, cloth, and gold.
  
• read the passage from a room of one’s own. and one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confession and self-analysis that to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer's mind whole and entire. generally material circumstances are against it. dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down. what is the purpose of the rhetorical device used in the underlined sentence? the parallel structure emphasizes the idea that creative work is much more challenging than other types of work. the parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations. the understatement emphasizes the idea that creative work is more important than life’s everyday obligations. the metaphor emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
  
• which is true about the completely simplified difference of the polynomials 6x6 − x3y4 − 5xy5 and 4x5y + 2x3y4 + 5xy5?
  
• what is one major reason various industries have adopted the use of automated robotic assembly?
  
• terbium-147 undergoes positron emission to become a stable atom. what is that stable atom?
  
• attorneys suing chiquita believe that the most ethical choice for a company facing violent threats at an overseas business unit is to: a. make questionable payments to political groups. b. offer bribes to top leaders of the host country. c. do nothing. d. suspend all business activities and exit the country.