The altitude of a triangle is increasing at a rate of 1.5 centimeters/minute while the area of the triangle is increasing at a rate of 5 square centimeters/minute. At what rate is the base of the triangle changing when the altitude is 8.5 centimeters and the area is 85 square centimeters?

Gretchen is setting up for a banquet. she has 300 chairs and needs to distribute them evenly among t tables. how many chairs should she put at each table? write your answer as an expression.

Ricky takes out a $31,800 student loan to pay his expenses while he is in college. after graduation, he will begin making payments of $190.66 per month for the next 30 years to pay off the loan. how much more will ricky end up paying for the loan than the original value of $31,800? ricky will end up paying $ more than he borrowed to pay off the loan.

The distributive property allows you to say that 3(x − 1) = 3x −