In the game of Roulette, if you place a $10 bet on number 12, there are two possible outcomes: either you profit $350 or you lose $10 (the prize is $360, but subtracting the $10 bet equals a net gain of $350).  The probability that you win is 1/38 and the probability that you lose is 37/38. Calculate the expected value of how much money you’ll get if you bet $10 on number 12 in Roulette?

Decide which of the two given prices is the better deal and explain why. You can buy shampoo in a 6-ounce bottle for $3.29 or in a 15-ounce bottle for $9.39

A city regulates the height of its houses by the rule that on the shortest day of the year, a house cannot cast a noontime shadow that reaches farther than the shadow that would be cast by a 12-foot fence on the property line. Assume a 12-foot fence casts a 20-foot shadow on the shortest day of the year, and the house is set back 35 feet from the property line. Quest 31 Image.png

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You wish to purchase a home for $190,000. Assume that you place 20% down & pay 3.5% APR on a 30 year fixed loan. What will your monthly payment be?

If your car gets 25 miles per gallon, how much does it cost to drive 450 miles when gasoline costs $3.85 per gallon?

Considering #2 & #3 above: Susan used the average from above, -1,500, and extrapolated the value of the car to be -$5,000 at 20 years of age.  Her mathematical work is correct, but is her answer reasonable?

Find the probability of drawing three fives in a row from a standard 52 card deck given that the drawn cards are not returned to the deck each time.

A Dodge Challenger was declining in value and worth $22,000 after 2 years and $10,000 after 10 years as shown in the table: Age 2 10 Value $22,000 $10,000 Using the data values between 2 and 10 years from the table above, Susan computed the rate of change of the car’s value to be -1,500.  Using the appropriate units, explain the meaning of -1,500 in the context of the problem using a complete sentence.

Identify the hypothesis and conclusion in the following proposition, and state their truth values. Then determine whether the entire proposition is true or false. “If apples are meat, then apples grow on trees.”