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What is the common difference in the following arithmetic sequence? 7,3,-1,-5

The long jump record, in feet, at a particular school can be modeled by f(x) = 19.6 + 2.5ln(x + 1) where x is the number of years since records began to be kept at the school. what is the record for the long jump 11 years after record started being kept? round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Acaterer charges $500 plus $30 per guest to cater a wedding. walt and traci don't want to spend more than $8000 on catering. write and solve an inequality in terms of the number of guests, g, that can be invited. a) 30g ? 8000; g ? 267 b) 500g < 8000; g < 16 c) 500 + 30g < 8000; g < 250 d) 500 + 30g ? 8000; g ? 250