LADDER PROBLEM A fireman stood on the middle rung of a ladder directing water into a burning building.
As the smoke lessened, he stepped up three rungs and continued his work from that
point. A sudden flare-up forced him to go down five rungs. Later he climbed up seven
rungs to the top of the ladder and entered the building. How many rungs does the
ladder have?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.

Worth 100 points need the answers asap first row -x^2 2x^2 (x/2)^2 x^2 x is less than 2 x is greater than 2 x is less than or equal to 2 x is greater than or equal to 2 second row -5 -5/2 4 5 •2 is less than x& x is less than 4 •2 is less than or equal to x & x is less than or equal to 4 •2 is less than or equal to x& x is less than 4 •2 is less than x& x is less than or equal to 4

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