Assignment:
Q1. Rise and run. If the rise is 3/2 and the run is 5, then what is the ratio of the rise to the run?
Q2. New product. A taste test with 200 randomly selected people found that only three of them said that they would buy a box of new Sweet Wheats cereal. How many boxes could the manufacturer expect to sell in a country of 280 million people?
Q3. The golden ratio. The ancient Greeks thought that the most pleasing shape for a rectangle was one for which the ratio of the length to the width was approximately 8 to 5, the golden ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than its width, then for what dimensions would the length and width have the golden ratio?
Q4. Force on running shoes. The ratio of the force on the shoe soles to the weight of a runner is 3 to 1. What force does a 130-pound jogger exert on the soles of her shoes?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.