Geometric progression has three terms, a, b, whose sum is 42. if 6 is added to each of the first two terms 3 to third a new g. p. result whose first term is the same as b. find a, b and c.

You are cycling around europe with friends. you book into a hostel and you ask the owner what the ratio of men to women is currently staying there. there are 24 men and 6 women. what is the ratio of men to women in its simplest form?

The volume of gas a balloon can hold varies directly as the cube of its radius. imagine a balloon with a radius of 3 inches can hold 81 cubic inches of gas. how many cubic inches of gas must be released to reduce the radius down to 2 inches?

Afarmer has a large field that is x feet in length. he wants to fence in a rectangular section in the middle of the field , leaving a length of 100 feet of open field behind each end of the fenced rectangle. he also wants the width of the fenced-in space to be 100 feet less than its length. find the expressions to represent the length and width of the fenced section of the field