A large class tournament begins with 2048 players. After each round r half of the player remains. Write an explicit expression for p(r), the number of players remaining after r rounds?

X/y + 4y/x divided by x/y - 2y/x explain as in depth as you can how you simplfied the fractions. i don't know where to start on this : /

Taylor wants to paint his rectangular deck that is 41 feet long and 24 feet wide. a gallon of paint covers about 350 square feet. how many gallons of paint will taylor need to cover the entire deck? round your answers to two decimal places when necessary.

36x2 + 49y2 = 1,764 the foci are located at: (-√13, 0) and (√13,0) (0, -√13) and (0,√13) (-1, 0) and (1, 0)edit: the answer is (- the square root of 13, 0) and (the square root of 13, 0)