Gretchen is building a picture frame. The frame around the picture is k inches longer than it is wide as shown in the picture. The shaded border is 2 inches wide and has an area of (a) Write and solve an equation that will enable you to find out the value of k.

Adepartment store purchases screen-printed t-shirts at a cost of $5 per shirt. they mark up the price 150% (making the selling price 250% of the store's purchase price) and put them on the sales floor. every month that a t-shirt doesn't sell, the store reduces the selling price by 25%.

The table shows the balance of a money market account over time. write a function that represents the balance y (in dollars) after t years.

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato