An arrangement of bowling pins has 3 pins in the first row and 12 rows in all. in each successive row one pin is added.

what is the explicit rule for this situation, and how many pins will be in the 12th row?

Identify the parent function that can be used to graph the function f(x)= (1/4x)^3

1. what is the formula for finding the vertical distance between two points on a coordinate plane?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?