Carlos wants to attach a stabilizing wire 5 feet high on the trunk of a new tree in his yard. He stakes the wire
out 5 feet from the base of the tree. How long is the
wire?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.