A bee flies at 12 feet per second directly to a flowerbed from its hive. The bee stays at the flowerbed for 11 minutes, and then flies directly back to the hive at 8 feet per second. It is away from the hive for a total of 15 minutes.
a. What equation can you use to find the distance of the flowerbed from the hive?
b. How far is the flowerbed from the hive?

Ascientist has 50 grams of a radioactive element. the amount of radioactive element remaining after t days can be determined using the equation (1) after two days the scientist receives a second shipment of 50 grams of the same element. the equation used to represent the amount of shipment 2 remaining after t days is 10) - 50 which of the following is an equivalent form of the expression for the amount remaining in shipment 2? what’s the answer?