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3. ronnie is building a tower out of blocks. there are 38 blocks in the bottom row. each row above the bottom row has 3 fewer blocks than the row below it.
(a) write an iterative rule to model the sequence formed by the number of blocks in each row.
(b) the top row has 5 blocks. use the rule to determine how many rows are in the tower. show your work.

Asays "we are both knaves" and b says nothing. exercises 24–31 relate to inhabitants of an island on which there are three kinds of people: knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and spies (called normals by smullyan [sm78]) who can either lie or tell the truth. you encounter three people, a, b, and c. you know one of these people is a knight, one is a knave, and one is a spy. each of the three people knows the type of person each of other two is. for each of these situations, if possible, determine whether there is a unique solution and determine who the knave, knight, and spy are. when there is no unique solution, list all possible solutions or state that there are no solutions. 24. a says "c is the knave," b says, "a is the knight," and c says "i am the spy."

This stem-and-leaf plot represents the heights of the students on ralph's basketball team. one student's height is missing from the plot. if the mean height of all the students on the team is 61 inches, what is the missing height? a. 55 in. b. 59 in. c. 61 in. d. 65 in.

The half-life of a certain material is 0.002 second. approximately how much of a 14-gram sample will be left after 0.004 second? a. 12 grams b. 3.5 grams c. 0.06 gram d. 7 grams