Write a function rule for the area of a rectangle whose length is 5 in. more than its width. What is the area of the rectangle when its width is 8 in.?

Solve each quadratic equation by factoring and using the zero product property. [tex]x^2+6x+8=0[/tex]

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

The ages of personnel in the accounting department of a large company are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 7 years. there is a 0.02275 probability that the age of any randomly chosen person in the department is less than 22 and 0.15866 probabilty that the age of any randomly chosen person is greater than 43. what is the mean of this distribution?