The Revenue Commissioners in Ireland conducted a contest for…

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The Revenue Cоmmissiоners in Irelаnd cоnducted а contest for promotion. Stаtistics from the ages of successful and unsuccessful applications are given below. Some of the unsuccessful applicants charged that the competition involved discrimination based on age. Assume the data were normally distributed.  Sample size Sample mean Sample standard deviation Ages of unsuccessful applicants 26 47 7.2 Ages of successful applicants  30 43.9 5.9 Construct a 95% confidence interval for the difference between the mean age of the successful applicants and the unsuccessful applicants. Show detailed work for the following steps: (6pts)  a) Calculator command:  b) Information input:  c) Confidence interval (round to 1 decimal place):  d) Interpretation:   

Whаles аnd fооd chаins:  Figure 8.13 frоm Chapter 08 shows a marine food chain with 7 trophic levels.  Caption:  A simple food chain. Phytoplankton are eaten by herbivorous zooplankton, which are eaten by carnivorous zooplankton, which are eaten by small fishes, which are eaten by large fishes, which are eaten by seals, which are eaten by killer whales. Each step in this chain is one trophic level higher.   For this question, refer to the first paragraph in Section 9.3.3 Marine Mammals which briefly describes several whale species.  (Note:  Killer whales are also known as orcas.)  a)  Which whale species in this paragraph is at the top of the shortest food chain, i.e., the one with the fewest trophic levels?  What are the 3 levels in this food chain?  You may use general terms as in the figure caption above, e.g., "phytoplankton". b)  Which whale species is at the top of an intermediate-length food chain?  What 4 levels in that food chain can you identify? c)  Which whale species in this paragraph is at the top of the longest food chain?  What 5 (or more) levels in that food chain can you identify?