The weight of a standard bale of cotton is 500 pounds or 14 short ton. To ship the cotton to foreign countries, freight rates are based on metric tons. The equation y = 0.91x can be used to represent the number of metric tons, y, in x short tons. About how many metric tons do 20 bales of cotton weigh?

In the following diagram it is given that dec,ab || dc, ad || eb, and ad is congruent to bc. a)why isn't abc a parallelogram even though it has a pair of parallel sides and a pair of congruent sides b)explain why be must be congruent to bc. further explain what type of triangle this makes triangle abc and what it tells you about angle 1 and angle 2c) finally why must angle 3 be congruent to angle 1? further, explain why we know that angle 3 is congruent to angle 2

From the beginning of the day the temperature rose 15 degrees so that by 4 pm it was 87 degrees. what was the temperature at the start of the day

Paul can type 60 words per minute and jennifer can type 80 words per minutes.how does paul's typing speed compare to jennifer's