There were 28 boys on the boy's basketball team and 16 girls on the girl's basketball team last year. This year the number of boys decreased by 8% but the number of girls increased by 19%. Was there an increase or decrease in overall participation?

50 ! pls ! 12.  building codes regulate the steepness of stairs. homes must have steps that are at least 13 inches wide for each 8 inches that they rise.

a. discuss how to find the slope of the stairs.
b. describe how changing the width or height affects the steepness of the stairs.

1- what do you think the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is? is it rational or irrational? make use of variables, the closure property of integers, and possibly a proof by contradiction to prove your hypothesis.2- why do we have to specify that the rational number must be nonzero when we determine what the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is? if the rational number were 0, would it give us the same result we found in the first question?

Data from 2005 for various age groups show that for each $100 increase in the median weekly income for whites, the median weekly income of blacks increases by $105. also, for workers of ages 25 to 54 the median weekly income for whites was $676 and for blacks was $527. (a) let w represent the median weekly income for whites and b the median weekly income for blacks, and write the equation of the line that gives b as a linear function of w. b = (b) when the median weekly income for whites is $760, what does the equation in (a) predict for the median weekly income for blacks?