Why can it be said that the security council doesn’t operate as a democracy

If the basis of an isosceles trapezoid have lengths of 11 and 26, what is the length of the median?

If u make mistakes on a school trip to knotts like standing up on a ride too early and they ask you not to do it again or and if you do it again you will be escorted out will it go on my student record? yes i know it is a dumb question

Some gamma ray bursts are hypothesized to come from mergers of neutron stars or black holes. if this hypothesis is correct, what else should we in principle be able to detect from such mergers? a. gravitiational waves b. x-ray bursts c. significant disruption of gas thousands of light-years away in the surrounding galaxy d. an "afterglow" of bright visible light, lasting for weeks