When cutting wood with a saw, a carpenter must take into account the thickness of the saw blade. suppose that from a piece of wood 42 in. long, a carpenter cuts a 17 1/2 in. length with a saw blade that is 1/8 in. thick. how long is the piece that remains?

Jonathan pays $1.90 per pound for potatoes. he buys 8.3 pounds of potatoes. he determines that he will pay $15.77, before tax, for the potatoes. which best describes the reasonableness of jonathan’s solution? jonathan’s answer is reasonable because there are two decimal places in the factors and two in the product. jonathan’s answer is unreasonable because there are three decimal places in the factors and two in the product. jonathan’s answer is reasonable because is 16, and 16 is close to 15.77. jonathan’s answer is unreasonable because is 8, and 8 is not very close to 15.77.

If 10 men take 18 days to mow 60 acres of grass, how long will 15 men take to mow 80 acres?

The sum of the first eight terms of an arithmetic progression is 9m + 14. the fifth term of the06 progression is 2m - 6, where m is a constant.given that the first term of the progression is 26,find the value of the common difference, d and thevalue of m.