Tom quig traveled  240  miles east of st. louis. for most of the trip he averaged  60  mph, but for one period of time he was slowed to  20  mph due to a major accident. if the total time of travel was  6  hours, how many miles did he drive at the reduced speed?

What is the inverse of the function f(x) = 2x + 1?

Ateacher wanted to buy a chair, a bookshelf, two tables and a desk. she spent $900 for all five items and the chair and the desk combined 70% of her total. if the bookshelf cost $50, how much did each of the tables cost?

The biologist has a second culture to examine. she knows that the population of the culture doubles every 15 minutes. after 1 hour and 15 minutes, her assistant found that 80,000 bacteria were present. a) what was the size of the initial population? b) predict the size of the culture at t=3 hours. what was the size of the population at 40 minutes? explain and justify your answers. c) create a graph of the population as a function of time. find an equation that can be used to predict the size of the population at any time t. d) examine the rate at which the bacteria culture is growing. how fast is the culture growing after 1 hour? after 1.5 hours? after 2 hours? use a time interval of h = 0.01 hours to estimate these rates. interpret these rates in terms of the context of the problem situation. how do these three rates compare?