A snail is at the foot of a flight of ten steps. Everyday it will climb up three steps and climb back down two steps. After how many days when will it reach the top?

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Problem 41AR: Solve these prism and cylinder exercises. Where necessary, round the answers to 2 decimal places...
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1. A snail is at the foot of a flight of ten steps. Everyday it will climb up three steps and climb back down two steps. After how many days when will it reach the top? 2. A time-study analyst observed a packaging operation and collected the following times (in second) required for the operation to fill package of a fixed volume box: 11, 18, 13, 18, 16, 14, 12. Solve for the average. 3. The easiest to obtain yet not necessarily a representative of the data?
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