500 books were sold the first day it went on sale. 150 books were sold each day after that. Write an eq, uation to represent the total number of books sold. How many books were sold after 50 days?

The serenity and the mystic are sail boats. the serenity and the mystic start at the same point and travel away from each other in opposite directions. the serenity travels at 16 mph and the mystic travels at 19 mph. how far apart will they be in 3 hours?

The mass of a marine organism, in pounds, p years after it is born is given by the polynomial function r(p) = -4p2 + 300p. find the mass when p = 20 years.

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.