Asquare blue rug has a purple square in the center. the side length of the purple square is x inches. the width of the blue band that surrounds the purple square is 10 in. what is the area of the blue ? band?

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution

Ashley recently opened a store that sells only natural ingredients. she wants to advertise her products by distributing bags of samples in her neighborhood. it takes one person 22 minutes to prepare one bag. how many hours will it take to prepare 900900 bags of samples if ashley and 55 of her friends do the work?

Astudent is solving a system of equations by substitution and comes up with the solution 3 = 3. assuming that he solved the problem correctly, which of the following can be said about this system of equations?