The first truck in a convoy will carry 12 tons of dirt while each additional truck will carry 8 tons of dirt. write a rule to model th situation. then use the rule to find how many tons of dirt can be carried by 7 trucks. let n represent the number of trucks and t represent the tons of dirt.

Thales was an ancient philosopher familiar with similar triangles. one story about him says that he found the height of a pyramid by measuring its shadow and his own shadow at the same time. if the person is 5-ft tall, what is the height of the pyramid in the drawing?

Which of the following is the explicit rule for a geometric sequence defined a recursive formula of a -5a for which the first term is 23?

Atextile fiber manufacturer is investigating a new drapery yarn, which the company claims has a mean thread elongation of 12 kilograms with a standard deviation of 0.5 kilograms. the company wishes to test the hypothesis upper h subscript 0 baseline colon mu equals 12 against upper h subscript 1 baseline colon mu less-than 12 using a random sample of n equals 4 specimens. calculate the p-value if the observed statistic is x overbar equals 11.8. round your final answer to five decimal places (e.g. 98.76543).