If a boy is 5 ft. tall and his shadow is 4 ft. and the shadow of a flagpole is 16 ft., determine the height of the flagpole.

10 ! in a race, nick is 50 feet in front of jay after ten seconds. how fast can nick run, if jay can run 20 feet per second?

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.

Rewrite the following quadratic functions in intercept or factored form. show your work. f(t) = 20t^2 + 14t - 12