Questions in Grade High-school

Questions in Grade High-school

📝 Answered - Why might one say that European astronomers finally destroyed the Middle Ages?

📝 Answered - All of the following statements are true about the Magna Carta except: A. It challenged the idea that Monarchs had absolute power. B. It allowed Monarchs to tax citizens at will. C. It gave people rights. D. It prevented leaders from jailing or executing people without due process (fair trial).

📝 Answered - The split into Sunni and Shia divisions of Islam can be traced to: A) the failure to defeat invading forces from Persia. B) a loss of territory to religious rebels in Arabia. C) a dispute over the question of Muhammad's successor. D) the reluctance of kings to submit to the will of Islam.

📝 Answered - You are at the music store to buy some CDs. You have $45 to spend, and the store sells CDs for $12.99 each. Write an inequality that represents the number, \( n \), of CDs that you can buy without spending more money than you have.

📝 Answered - A container has 50 electronic components, of which 10 are defective. If 8 components are drawn at random from the container, what is the probability that exactly 3 of them are defective?

📝 Answered - Out of the 50 digital video recorders in an inventory, four are known to be defective. What is the probability you randomly select an item that is not defective?

📝 Answered - How many times can 24 go into 48?

📝 Answered - Indira predicts that the actual difference of 19 - 7.82 will be greater than the estimate of 19 - 8 = 11. Is Indira correct? Explain how Indira might have arrived at that prediction without subtracting the actual numbers.

📝 Answered - Two non-simultaneous events have an equal likelihood of occurring (50%). If the events are independent of each other, what is the probability that they will both occur?

📝 Answered - Suppose the term of an investment at simple interest is doubled. Does the interest received double?