The cost of renting roller skates at a roller skating rink is $5. the cost of a slice of pizza is $.75 and the cost of a drink is $1. you want to rent skates and buy 3 slices of pizza and two drinks. use the variable p to represent the number of pizza and use the variable d to represent the number of drinks.

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?

Mrs. gehrke said cheddar weighs 16.8 pounds. he actually weighs 15.2 pounds. what is the percent error?

Parabolas y=−2x^2 and y=2x^2 +k intersect at points a and b that are in the third and the fourth quadrants respectively. find k if length of the segment ab is 5.