Questions 10—11 are based on the following:
Antinuclear activist: The closing of the nuclear power plant is a victory
for the antinuclear cause. It also represents a belated acknowledgment by the
power industry that they cannot operate such plants safely.
Nuclear power plant manager: It represents no such thing. The availability of
cheap power from nonnuclear sources, together with the cost of mandated safety
inspections and safety repairs, made continued operation uneconomic. Thus it was
not safety considerations but economic considerations that dictated the plant’s
closing. For a group of n people, k of whom are of the same sex, the expression
yields an index for a certain
phenomenon in group dynamics for members of that sex. For a group that, consists
of 20 people, 4 of whom are females, by how much does the index for the females
exceed the index for the males in the group