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Me asap on # : explain how factoring a trinomial, ax^2+ bx+ c, when a does not equal 1 different from factoring a trinomial when a = 1.

In a newspaper, it was reported that yearly robberies in springfield were up 25% to 265 in 2013 from 2012. how many robberies were there in springfield in 2012?

Is the response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week question mark "response to the survey question "did you smoke in the last week? " a discrete random variable, a continuous random variable, or not a random variable?