Black Beard has a crew of 256 men. He leaves 72
men stranded on a desert
- island for trying to steal
some of his treasure.
Then, he makes 7 walk the
plank for starting a mutiny.
How many men does Black
Beard have left?

Darian wants to build a regulation size pool table that is 9 feet in length.he plans he ordered are 18 by 36 inches. what is the scale factor of the dilation he must use to build a regulation pool table

The sat and act tests use very different grading scales. the sat math scores follow a normal distribution with mean 518 and standard deviation of 118. the act math scores follow a normal distribution with mean 20.7 and standard deviation of 5. suppose regan scores a 754 on the math portion of the sat. how much would her sister veronica need to score on the math portion of the act to meet or beat regan's score?

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry.how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.