From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Primeval, exuberance, dote, tenure, laminate, hovel, substantiate. During Dr. Rigby's _____ as the team leader at the archaeological dig, she found the remains of a 3,000-year-old doll that had probably been _____ on by a child living in the clean, _____ forest circling the. mountain. In addition, the team found evidence that the ancient tribe knew how to _____ weapons and tools by hammering layers of steel together to add strength, but the laboratory would have to test the tools in order to _____ the theory.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Berserk delude knead edifice ambidextrous. Laurie _____ the modeling clay until it was soft enough to work with. Since her work required deep concentration, she nearly went _____ when her assistant interrupted for the third time to obtain Laurie's signature. Even though Laurie was _____, she could not sign her name and focus on her art simultaneously.

Complete the sentence by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. If you carp about the decorations in your friend's new home, then your friend might not...

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete paragraph. Penury, gird, flux, exuberance, daunt, gothic, hovel. Despite their tremendous destructive power, tornadoes do not ______ the Russell family; they have experienced too many storms even to care. The weather of the Midwest is in ______, and the family seldom allows adverse weather to detract from the ______ of heir day-to-day lives. Their underground shelter might resemble a[n] ______ dungeon, but for the Russells, it is a place to sit out the storm and listen to Mr. Russell's stories about how he weathered tornadoes during his childhood. He often relates the day^i which a tornado passed while he was far from shelter, and how he and his parents _____ themselves for the oncoming storm.

While Jenny is studying for class, she realizes that reading her math book and taking notes as her professor suggested takes her triple the time it used to take her to just read without taking notes. However, she also notices her grades rise dramatically, so she decides this is a good idea. Write the time it takes Jenny to read and take notes as a function of the time it takes her to only read her book. If it took Jenny 45 minutes to read a section of her book without taking notes, how long would it take her to read the same section while taking notes?

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. genial, novice, enraptured, juggernaut, nocturnal, marital, obstreperous, levity. Despite her position as regional manager for Tyndall Systems, Shawna felt like a[n] _____ every time she attended the monthly sales meeting at Tyndall corporate headquarters. Perhaps she was just getting old, she reasoned, but she knew that few could endure her ____ schedule six days out of the week. Tyndall was a[n] _____ in the information technology arena, buying and consolidating other corporations and firing dissenters with impunity. Shawna told her husband that she would retire in two years; she hoped in time to mitigate their rapidly multiplying _____ problems. She was no longer the hard worker that Tyndall wanted for managing a regional hub, and the stress from trying to meet the demand had caused her once _____ manner to reverse-not that she needed it any more at the office. District sales meetings were not a place for _____; the twelve other managers spoke and carried themselves like assertive robots, rarely allowing jokes or laughter to interrupt their lengthy meetings. The single and most recent show of emotion at the meeting occurred when the vice president fired one of the managers on the spot, and the security guards had to drag him, _____ and screaming, out of the conference room.

What types of real-world problems can be solved using systems of equations?

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

$$\begin{array}{llll}\text { acerbic } & \text { requiem } & \text { augur } & \text { beatitude } \\ \text { androgynous } & \text { traduce } & \text { tendentious }\end{array}$$

The choir, dressed in white, ______ robes, sang movements of the ______ that the late composer had written for his own funeral. Superstitious people had the ______ idea that the death should be blamed on a[n] ______ who had convinced the composer that a visit from a raven meant certain death. They thought that the old seer had caused the composer to worry himself to death. Angry citizens ______ the old oracle and eventually ran him out of town.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will nol be used. glib, extrovert, decorum, belie, protean, propagate, journeyman. In only two weeks, the disease outbreak _____ beyond the borders of its initial region to four continents. The _____ bacteria responsible was often missed by medical _____ in lab tests because it often changes in appearance and resembles other harmless strains of bacteria. The rampant purchase of vaccines _____ the false bravado of critics who offered _____ dismissals of the threat of deadly germs.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

imbroglio

peregrination

quotidian

hubris

sanctimonious

prognosticate

scullion

There was a[n] ______________ at the garage. A customer arrived and demanded to see his car, after having been told that the repairs were nearly finished, but found that the work had not even begun.

"Two weeks ago, you said that the job would take three or four days, but that ______________ was wrong," the customer sarcastically said to Jane, the receptionist. "Give me the keys; I'll take my car to a different garage." Jane complied, still smiling as usual; she never worried about losing an occasional customer, though she did feel bad about mistakenly telling the customer that his car was finished. Angry customers were a[n] ______________ occurrence in the auto repair business; most people have a tendency to become emotional when they receive bills for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, especially for repairs to cars that are still relatively new. Jane knew that every garage in town was overloaded. Upon hearing the customer's story, the other garage would offer some ______________ criticism of Jane's garage, accept the job, and then do exactly what Jane's garage did, since the car required a tedious repair that yielded little profit. The whole frustrating process simply causes many drivers to abandon their cars and resort to ______________ as their primary form of transportation.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. felicity, penury, gird, flux daunt, gothic, hovel. Despite their tremendous destructive power, tornadoes do not _____ the Russell family; they have experienced too many storms even to care. The weather of the Midwest is in _____, and the family seldom allows adverse weather to detract from the _____ of their day-to-day lives. Their underground shelter might resemble a[n] _____ dungeon, but for the Russells, it is a place to sit out the storm and listen to Mr. Russell's stories about how he weathered storms during his childhood. He often relates the day in which a tornado passed while he was far from shelter, and he and his parents _____ themselves for the oncoming storm.

Simplify the expression.

$$\left(2 n^{3}-5\right)\left(6 n^{2}+n\right)$$

Over the past several months, an adult patient has been treated for tetany (severe muscle spasms). This condition is associated with an average total calcium level below 6 mg/dl. Recently, the patient 's total calcium tests gave the following readings (in mg/di).

This exercise is based on the following information, gathered from student testing of a statistical software package called MODSTAT. Students were asked to complete certain tasks using the software, without any instructions. The results were as follows. (Assume that the time for each task is normally distributed.)

$$\begin{matrix} \text{Task} & \text{Mean Time (minutes)} & \text{Standard Deviation}\\ \text{Task 1: Descriptive Analysis of Data} & \text{11.4} & \text{5.0}\\ \text{Task 2: Standardizing Scores} & \text{11.9} & \text{9.0}\\ \text{Task 3: Poisson Probability Table} & \text{7.3} & \text{3.9}\\ \text{Task 4: Areas under Normal Curve} & \text{9.1} & \text{5.5}\\ \end{matrix}$$

It can be shown that if X and Y are independent normal random variables with means $\mu_{X}$ and $\mu_{Y}$ and standard deviations $\sigma_{X}$ and $\sigma_{Y}$ respectively, then their sum X+Y is also normally distributed and has mean $\mu=\mu_{X}+\mu_{Y}$ and standard deviation $\sigma=\sqrt{\sigma_{X}^{2}+\sigma_{Y}^{2}}$. Assuming that the time it takes a student to complete each task is independent of the others, find the probability that a student will take at least 20 minutes to complete both Tasks 1 and 2.