Companies were in competition with each other. They began the same year. The equation representation for
each company is below. The variable y represents the
number of employees. The variable x represents the
years after the start of the companies.
XYZ Company: y = 3x +24
ABC Company: y = 4x +10
• XYZ Company states, "We hired 42 employees, the
same number as ABC Company has this year." Is
XYZ Company's statement possible? Show math
work to explain your reasoning.
• ABC Company states, "In 15 years, our company will
have the same number of employees as XYZ
Company." Is ABC Company's statement possible?
Show math work to explain your reasoning.

Martha has a deck of cards. she has lost some of the cards, and now the deck only contains nine spades, eleven diamonds, eight clubs, and twelve hearts. martha predicts that whenever she draws a card from the deck without looking, she will draw a club one-fifth of the time. which activity would best allow martha to test her prediction? a. randomly draw a card from the box and see if it is a club. b. randomly draw a card. then, continue to draw another card until all eight clubs are drawn. c. randomly draw and replace a card 120 times. then, observe how close to 30 times a club is drawn. d. randomly draw and replace a card 100 times. then, observe how close to 20 times a club is drawn.

You coordinate volunteers for litter cleanup in local parks. your spreadsheet lists drivers and the number of seat belts in each driver’s car. the spreadsheet calculates the number of drivers (d) and the total number of seat belts (s). you want to know the maximum number of volunteers, besides drivers, that can be transported to the park in a single trip given that each person must have a seat belt of their own.

Statements reasons 1. ab ≅ cd; ad ≅ bc 1. given 2. ac ≅ ac 2. reflexive property 3. △adc ≅ △cba 3. ? 4. ∠dac ≅ ∠bca; ∠acd ≅ ∠cab 4. cpctc 5. ∠dac and ∠bca are alt. int. ∠s; ∠acd and ∠cab are alt. int. ∠s 5. definition of alternate interior angles 6. ab ∥ cd; ad ∥ bc 6. converse of the alternate interior angles theorem 7. abcd is a parallelogram 7. definition of parallelogram what is the missing reason in step 3?