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Quadrilateral abcd in the figure below represents a scaled-down model of a walkway around a historic site. quadrilateral efgh represents the actual walkway. abcd is similar to efgh. what is the total length, in feet of the actual walkway?

White shapes and black shapes are used in a game. some of the shapes are circles. while the rest are squares. the ratio of the number of white shapes to the number of black shapes is 5: 11. the ratio of the number of white cicrles to the number of white squares is 3: 7. the ratio of the number of black circles to the number of black squres is 3: 8. work out what fraction of all the shapes are circles.

What is the factor form of x^2-9x+14