"Death Valley Hike" A hiker in Death Valley begins the climb out of the valley from 150 feet below sea level. 5
minutes later, the hiker is 87.5 feet below sea level.
a) Write an equation that models this situation.
b) What is the y-intercept and what does it represent?
c) What is the x-intercept and what does it represent?
d) What is the slope and what does it represent?
e) What is the hiker's distance below sea level after 10 minutes?

One integer is 8 times another. if the product is 72, then find the integers

In trapezoid abcd, ac is a diagonal and ∠abc≅∠acd. find ac if the lengths of the bases bc and ad are 12m and 27m respectively.

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends more than a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?