In a random sample of 80 students in first grade, the mean hours of sleep per Night was 9.4 with a standard deviation of 0.41 in a random sample of 50 students in the 12th grade mean hours of sleep per night was 7.5 with a standard deviation of 0.52. Which intervals is a 99% confidence interval for the difference between the mean hours of sleep?

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The average monthly rent for a 1000-sq-ft apartment in a major metropolitan area from 1998 through 2005 can be approximated by the function below where t is the time in years since the beginning of 1998. Find the value of t when rents were increasing most rapidly. Approximately when did this occur?

Recall that, we are asked for the value of t where it was increasing most rapidly. Then, this means that the first derivative has a positive value (this is because the function is increasing), but also, we want a value of t for which the first derivative is maximum. Then, let us calculate the derivative of f, and call it g. To do so, recall that the derivative of a polynomial . Then

We want to find a value of t for which g is positive and maximum. For that, let us calculate the derivative of g. REcall that a function has a maximum/mininum where it's derivative is equal to zero. Then, we want to solve the following equation:

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Recall the quadratic formula, that if we have a polynomial of the form , the solution is given by .

If we use this, we have the following solutions. t = 1.58851 and t = 3.91389. We want to evaluate which one gives us the maximum for g. Then, we are going to use the second derivative criteria. That is, a point is a maximum if and only if the first derivative at that point is zero and the second derivative is negative. The second derivative of g is

Note that g''(1.58851) =-47.0443<0 and g''(3.91389) = 47.0443>0, so t=1.58851 is the maximum we are looking for. Note that g(1.58851) = 92.94>0 as desired.  

This means, that approximately one year and a halft later (that is at July-1999) the rents were increasing most rapidly.