Mindy wants to cover a rectangular section of her back yard with gravel. The length of the section is 7 1/2 meters and the width of the section is 6.5 meters. A garden in the rectangular section of her backyard with an area of 25 4/5 square meters will not be covered with gravel. How much area will Mindy need to consider when purchasing the gravel?

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

Examine the following sets of events. set a: {1, 5, 7, 9, 14} set b: {2, 5, 6, 8, 14, 17} which of the following represents the intersection of set a and set b ? {∅} {5, 14} {1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 17} {1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17}

In factoring by grouping, what would you have for step 3 for the following? step 1: x^3 +5x^2 +4x+20 step 2: x^2 (x+5)+4(x+5) step 3: ?