Cost of Backyard Structures. Many families in California are using backyard structures for home offices, art studios, and hobby areas as well as for additional storage. Suppose that the mean price for a customized wooden, shingled backyard structure is $\$ 3100$. Assume that the standard deviation is $\$ 1200$.

d. If the cost for a backyard shed-office combination built in Albany, California, is $\$ 13,000$, should this structure be considered an outlier? Explain.

Go to one or more stores that sell expensive art. Outline the sales techniques used (point-of-purchase displays, store design, salesperson comments, and so forth). What beliefs regarding consumer behavior seem to underlie these techniques? It is often worthwhile for a male and female student to visit similar stores and talk to similar salespeople at different times. The variation in salesperson behavior is sometimes quite revealing.

T.H., a 57-year-old stockbroker, has come to the gastroenterologist for treatment of recurrent mild to severe cramping in his abdomen and blood-streaked stool. You are the registered nurse doing his initial workup. Your findings include a mildly obese man who demonstrates moderate guarding of his abdomen with both direct and rebound tenderness, especially in the left lower quadrant (LLQ). His vital signs are 168/98, 110, 24, $100.4^{\circ}F$ ($38^{\circ}C$); he is slightly diaphoretic. T.H. reports t hat he has periodic constipation. He has had previous episodes of abdominal cramping, but this time the pain is getting worse. Past medical history reveals that T.H. has a "sedentary job with lots of emotional moments," he has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years, and he had "two or three mixed drinks in the evening" until 2 months ago. He states, "I haven't had anything to drink in 2 months." He denies having regular exercise: "just no time." His diet consists mostly of "white bread, meat, potatoes, and ice cream with fruit and nuts over it." He denies having a history of cardiac or pulmonary problems and has no personal history of cancer, although his father and older brother died of colon cancer. He takes no medications and denies the use of any other drugs or herbal products.
Identify a key factor in his family history that might have profound implications for his health and present state of mind.

In three hours, James read 18 pages of his history book. In four hours, he read 21 pages. Write the equation of the line that passes through the two points that represent the data in the problem. Use the equation to predict how many pages James will read in six hours.

BUSINESS: Appreciation A 20,000 dollars art collection is increasing in value at the rate of $300 \sqrt{t}$ dollars per year after t years.

a. Find a formula for its value after t years. [Hint: Evaluate C so that its value at time t=0 is 20,000 dollars.]

b. Use the formula that you found in part (a) to find its value after 25 years.

The poem begins with the word “Imagine” and moves from a description of the scene in Hopper’s painting to what was in the newspaper — real events from $1942$ — which the man in the painting might read the next morning. How does Sadoff honor the painting’s universal themes while also mooring it to a specific time in history?

Short Response Mari bought 3 packages of colored paper. She used $\frac{3}{4}$ of a package to make greeting cards and used $1 \frac{1}{6}$ packages for an art project. She gave $\frac{2}{3}$ of a package to her brother. How much colored paper does Mari have left? Show the steps you used to find the answer.

In the days before compact discs and MP3 players (ancient history!), music was recorded in scratches in the surface of vinyl-coated disks called records. In a typical record player, the record rotated with a period of $1.8 \mathrm{~s}$. Find the centripetal acceleration of a point on the edge of the record. Assume a radius of $15 \mathrm{~cm}$.

Casebolt Company wrote off the following accounts receivable as uncollectible for the first year of its operations ending December 31, 2014:

$$\begin{array}{lr} \text { Customer } & \text { Amount } \\ \hline \text { Shawn Brooke } & \$ 4,650 \\ \text { Eve Denton } & 5,180 \\ \text { Art Malloy } & 11,050 \\ \text { Cassie Yost } & 9,120 \\ \text { Total } & \$ 30,000 \\ \hline \end{array}$$

On the line provided, write the correct past or past participle form of the italicized verb given before each sentence.

Example 1. run Had she ever $\underline{\text{run}}$ for office before that election?

wear Sixteen people have ________ this service badge in our department's history.

In each of the following sentences, circle the antecedent of the pronoun or pronouns in parentheses. Then, underline the choice in parentheses that agrees with the antecedent

Example: I don't particularly enjoy standardized tests) but I do well on ($\underline{\textit{them}}$, it).

Both Maxine and Lisa think (their, her) history teacher is the best in the school.

A local university is keeping track of the number of art students who use the pottery studio each day.

a. Write an equation of the regression line and find and interpret the correlation coefficient.

b. Graph the residual plot and determine if the regression line models the data well.

The narrator of "Freedom to Breathe" has a unique perspective on what is an unremarkable experience for most people breathing the spring air. How did Solzhenitsyn's personal history make it possible for him to capture the extraordinary nature of an ordinary experience? What do you think is the theme, or message, of this prose poem?

Argentine life The gauchos live in las pampas and earn a living raising cattle, while many Argentine artists live in the neighborhood La Boca where they sell and create their art. Which of these two lifestyles would you like to lead? Write a paragraph about how your life would be. Where would you live? What would you do every day?