How to work scientific notation

Awrestling tournament begins with 128 competitors. in the first round, each competitor has 1 match against another wrestler. the winner of each match moves on to the next round until there is a winner. write a sequence in which the terms represent the number of players still in the tournament at the end of each round. describe the sequence? how many rounds are in the tournament?

The average number of vehicles waiting in line to enter a parking lot can be modeled by the function f left parenthesis x right x squared over 2 left parenthesis 1 minus x right parenthesis endfraction , where x is a number between 0 and 1 known as the traffic intensity. find the rate of change of the number of vehicles waiting with respect to the traffic intensity for the intensities (a) xequals0.3 and (b) xequals0.6.

Add the fractions, and simply the result to lowest terms. 2/3 + 2/7= ?