If a right circular cone intersects a plane that passes through one of its nappes but the plane is not parallel to an edge of the cone the resulting curve will be:
parabola
circle
ellipse
hyperbola

Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month. at the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation s=300-15x , where s is the number of pair of shoes kelly still needs to sell and x is the number of days she has worked that month. what is the meaning of the number 300 in this equation

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. he needs to schedule employee to staff the deli department for no more that 260 person-hours per week. tom has one part-time employee who works 20 person-hours per week. each full-time employee works 40 person-hours per week. write and inequality to determine n, the number of full-time employees tom may schedule, so that his employees work on more than 260 person-hours per week. graph the solution set to this inequality.

In trapezoid abcd, ac is a diagonal and ∠abc≅∠acd. find ac if the lengths of the bases bc and ad are 12m and 27m respectively.