1 John used landscape timbers to create a border around a garden shaped like a right triangle. The longest two timbers he used are 12 feet and 15 feet long. Which is closest to the length, in feet, of the shortest timber?

2 John is walking home with his younger brother, Don. Their home is on the opposite corner of a rectangular lot with dimensions of 500 feet by 800 feet. John decides to walk along two sides of the lot, while Don takes the direct diagonal path home.

About how much farther does John walk than Don?

"as long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. the protection of these faculties is the first object of government. from the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results, and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties." - publius (james madison), federalist no. 10 based on the text, which of the following statements would the author most likely agree with? a: political liberty is best protected by the fragmentation of political power in a large republic. b: political liberty is best protected by a small republic with a unicameral legislature. c: political liberty is least protected in large republic with lots of fractions. d: political liberty is best protected by a particularly democracy.