An arrangement of billiard balls has 5 balls in the first row and 16 rows in all. in each successive row one ball is added. what is the explicit rule for this situation, and how many balls will be in the 16th row?

Solve |2x - 5| = 4 if anyone could , that would be great

Two cars which are 40 miles apart start moving simultaneously in the same direction with constant speeds. if the speed of the car which is behind is 56 mph and the speed of the other car is 48 mph, how many hours will it take for the car which is behind to catch up the car ahead of it?

You are standing next to a really big circular lake. you want to measure the diameter of the lake, but you don't want to have to swim across with a measuring tape! you decide to walk around the perimeter of the lake and measure its circumference, and find that it's 400\pi\text{ m}400? m. what is the diameter dd of the lake?