The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 was "an environmental disaster of unprecedented proportions" and was a "devastating blow to the resource-dependent economy of the region" [1]. According to the Washington Post, it is estimated that 9857 9857 cubic meters of oil per day spilled into the Gulf of Mexico on August 2, 2010 Assume that an average of 9857 m^3/day of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico everyday and that it formed a hemispherical dome of radius r on the ocean floor. D) find the rate of change of the radius with respect to time when the volume of the oil spill is 50,000m^3. E) Since only the oil that is in contact with seawater can mix with seawater, it is important to know how much of the surface area of the oil spill is in contact with seawater. Find the rate of change of the hemisphere's surface area with respect to time when the volume of the oil spill is 50,000 m3. Include units in your answer. You should assume that only the top of the hemispherical dome of oil comes in contact with seawater (not the flat bottom, which is incontact with the ocean floor). F) is A’(t)=dA/dt a constant? If not, is it increasing or decreasing of time? In other words, as t increases, does dA/dt stay the same, increase, or decrease?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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