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Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?

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

The distribution of a sample of the outside diameters of pvc pipes approximates a symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution. the arithmetic mean is 14.0 inches, and the standard deviation is 0.1 inches. about 68% of the outside diameters lie between what two amounts?