Apiece of ribbon is cut into two shorter pieces in the ratio 2.8 : 1.25. the difference in the length of the two shorter pieces is 80.6 centimeters. what is the length of the original piece of ribbon?

In the final round of trivia competition, contestants were asked to name as many states that begin with the letter m as they could in 15 seconds. the bar graph shows the number of states the contestants were able to name. how many contestants participated in the final round of the competition? a) 6 b) 8 c) 14 d) 20

The number of hours per week that the television is turned on is determined for each family in a sample. the mean of the data is 37 hours and the median is 33.2 hours. twenty-four of the families in the sample turned on the television for 22 hours or less for the week. the 13th percentile of the data is 22 hours. approximately how many families are in the sample? round your answer to the nearest integer.

Write as a product of two polynomials. 2(3–b)+5(b–3)^2