Mr. Jones needs to clean out the gutters on his house. The gutters are 12 feet high. If Mr. Jones places the ladder 3 feet from the base of the house, how long must the ladder be so that Mr. Jones can reach the gutters? Round your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.

An equation representing lyle’s hedge-trimming business is a = 12n - 300 where a is the amount of profit or loss in dollars and n is the number of hedges trimmed. how would the graph of lyle’s business change if the equation a = 10n - 300 represented his business? the graph would be flatter. the graph would be steeper. the graph would start closer to the origin. the graph would start lower on the y-axis.

The number if marbles of different colors stored in a hat is listed below: 4 red marbles 10 green marbles 7 blue marbles. without looking in the hat, dan takes out a marble at random. he replaces the marble and then takes out another marble from the hat. what is the probability that dan takes out a blue marble in both draws?

In which direction does the left side of the graph of this function point? a(x) = 3x - x2 + 4x - 2