A 5 inch bamboo shoot doubles in height every 3 days. If the equation y=ab^x, where x is the number of doubling periods, represents the height of the bamboo shoot, what are the values of a and b?

It is saturday morning and jeremy has discovered he has a leak coming from the water heater in his attic. since plumbers charge extra to come out on the weekends, jeremy is planning to use buckets to catch the dripping water. he places a bucket under the drip and steps outside to walk the dog. in half an hour the bucket is 1/5 of the way full. what is the rate at which the water is leaking per hour?

Campus rentals rents 2 and 3 bedrooms apartments for $700 ans $900 a month respectively. last month they had six vacant apartments and reported $4600 in lost rent. how many of each type of apartment were vacant?

Helena lost her marbles. but then she found them and put them in 44 bags with mm marbles in each bag. she had 33 marbles left over that didn't fit in the bags.