Tangent is defined as

Tim's phone service charges $26.39 plus an additional $0.21 for each text message sent per month. if tim's phone bill was $31.64, which equation could be used to find how many text messages, x, tim sent last month?

You dug a hole that was 8 feet deep. after taking a short break, you dug down 3 more feet in the same hole. when finished digging, a tractor accidentally filled the hole with 4 feet of dirt. how deep is your hole now?

Gravel is being dumped from a conveyor belt at a rate of 25 ft3/min, and its coarseness is such that it forms a pile in the shape of a cone whose base diameter and height are always equal. how fast is the height of the pile increasing when the pile is 14 ft high? (round your answer to two decimal places.) ft/min