Each entry in the multiplication table above is an integer that is either positive, negative, or zero. What is the value of a ?
Meat from chickens contaminated with salmonella bacteria can cause serious food poisoning. Capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their hot flavor, has antibacterial properties. Chickens do not have taste receptors for capsaicin and will readily eat feed laced with capsaicin. When chickens were fed such feed and then exposed to salmonella bacteria, relatively few of them became contaminated with salmonella.
In deciding whether the feed would be useful in raising salmonella-free chicken for retail sale, it would be most helpful to determine which of the following?
The table lists the women enrolled as a percent of the total enrollment for each of the 3 universities—University X, University Y, and University Z—in Province A for the fall term of several consecutive years. For the fall term of each of these years, the table also lists the women enrolled at the 3 universities combined as a percent of the total combined enrollment at the 3 universities.
Women Enrolled, as a Percent of Total Enrollment
Fall | University X | University Y | University Z | Province A |
2000 | 52.8 | 44.2 | 58.5 | 50.6 |
2001 | 53.1 | 44.1 | 58.9 | 50.7 |
2002 | 53.6 | 44.0 | 55.8 | 50.8 |
2003 | 53.3 | 43.6 | 58.6 | 50.5 |
2004 | 53.0 | 43.9 | 58.1 | 50.5 |
2005 | 52.5 | 43.7 | 58.3 | 50.2 |
2006 | 52.2 | 43.8 | 58.1 | 50.1 |
2007 | 52.0 | 43.2 | 57.8 | 49.7 |
2008 | 51.4 | 43.8 | 58.3 | 49.7 |