A rock formation is 8 miles due south of its closest point along a straight shoreline. A visitor is staying in a cabin that is 9 miles west of that point. The visitor is planning to go from the cabin to the rock formation. Suppose the visitor runs at a rate of 3 mph and swims at a rate of 1 mph. How far should the visitor run to minimize the time it takes to reach the rock formation

Sherina wrote and solved the equation. x-56=230 x-56-56=230-56 x=174 what was sherina’s error? sherina’s work is correct. sherina only needed to subtract 56 from 230. sherina made a subtraction error when subtracting 56 from 230. sherina should have added 56 to both sides of the equation.

Jackie bought a bag of oranges. she used 3/8 of the oranges to make orange juice. she used 1/3 of the oranges to make a fruit salad. she put 1/8 of the oranges in a bowl on the table. she put 2/12 of the oranges in the refrigerator. a) jackie left more oranges on the table than she put in the refrigerator. b) jackie used fewer oranges to make orange juice than she left on the table. c) jackie put fewer oranges in the refrigerator than she used to make the fruit salad. eliminate d) jackie used more oranges to make a fruit salad than she used to make orange juice.

The la dodgers hit the most homeruns in 2014. the number of homeruns accounted for 6% of the entire major leauge baseball homerun count. if 583 total homeruns were hit, approximately how many did the la dodgers hit