In an election the winner receives 40 less then twice as many votes as the other. if the winner received 308 votes, how many votes did the loser get?

5500 dollars is placed in an account with an annual interest rate of 6.5%. to the nearest tenth of a year, how long will it take for the account value to reach 19700 dollars?

Segment xz is bisected by point y. if xy = 12x, and the measure of xz = 18x – 6, solve for x

() at a farm, animals are fed bales of hay and buckets of gain.each bale of hay is in the shape of a rectangular prism.the base side lengths 2 feet and 3 feet,and the height is 5 feet. each bucket of grain is a cylinder with diameter of 3 feet. the height of the bucket is 5 feet as the height of bale. a. which is larger in area, the rectangular base of the bale or the circular base of the bucket? explain how you know b. which is larger in volume, the bale or the bucket? explain how you know