“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe th…

“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”                                                                               Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” speech, 1858   The decision by the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford supported  

Write the notes of an D major scale (use a lower-case “b” fo…

Write the notes of an D major scale (use a lower-case “b” for “flat” and a number sign “#” for “sharp” after the note name:  Eb, G#, etc.  For natural notes, just write the letter name:  D, G, etc.) D, [note2], [note3], [note4], [note5], [note6], [note7], D.

There are two random variables involved in this question, X…

There are two random variables involved in this question, X and Y. The random variable X has an expected value of zero, and a variance of 2. The two random variables are related as follows: Y=[a]X+[b]. Define a third random variable Z=Y-X. What is the variance of Z?