A group of scientists studied the effect this beetle has on the tree population in the forest. after five years of research, they determined that the beetle population doubled each year. on the other hand, the number of healthy trees decreased by 40 percent from the previous year's population. during the first year of their research, the scientists estimated that there were 250 beetles and 4000 healthy trees in the forest area.

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

Which rational number could be graphed between -4 and -5

Draw a tape diagram to represent each situation.for some of the situations,you need to decide what to represent with a variable andre bakes 9 pans of brownies.he donates 7 pans to the school bake sale and keeps the rest to divide equally among his class of 30 students