A construction company installs three temporary posts that are connected by safety barricades to enclose a grassy area before building a new playground. When planned out on grid paper, the coordinates of the three posts are A(2,6), B(5,10), and C(10,0).
What is the area of the grassy region?

The circumference of a redwood tree trunk is 20π ft, and it is 100 ft tall. what is the approximate volume of the redwood tree trunk? 1,000π ft3 10,000π ft3 4,000π ft3 40,000π ft3

Is the product of two rational numbers irrational or rational? first, make a hypothesis by multiplying two rational numbers. then, use variables such as x=a/b and y=c/d and the closure property of integers to prove your hypothesis.

Aprisoner is trapped in a cell containing three doors. the first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after two days of travel. the second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after three days of travel. the third door leads immediately to freedom. (a) assuming that the prisoner will always select doors 1, 2 and 3 with probabili- ties 0.5,0.3,0.2 (respectively), what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (b) assuming that the prisoner is always equally likely to choose among those doors that he has not used, what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (in this version, if the prisoner initially tries door 1, for example, then when he returns to the cell, he will now select only from doors 2 and 3.) (c) for parts (a) and (b), find the variance of the number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom. hint for part (b): define ni to be the number of additional days the prisoner spends after initially choosing door i and returning to his cell.