I'm having a hard time understanding some of the math on my algebra review, and the test is tomorrow. Somebody, help me out? What value of b completes the function f(x) = (-x)^2 + bx + 1

Which themes are portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? praskovya fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. ivan ilyich might have aspired to a more brilliant match, but even this was good. he had his salary, and she, he hoped, would have an equal income. she was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. to say that ivan ilyich married because he fell in love with praskovya fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match. he was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. so ivan ilyich got married. conforming to social conventions criticism of a middle class lifestyle the destructive impact of loneliness struggling to face reality the necessity of companionship

Give me the equations of two lines that have the same slope but are not parallel.

Taber invested money in an account where interest is compounded every year.he made no withdrawals or deposits. the function a(t)=525(1+0.05)^t represent the amount of money in the account after t years. how much money did taber origanally invested?