The second side of a triangular deck is 3 feet longer than the shortest side, and the third side is3 feet shorter than twice the length of the shortest side. If the perimeter of the deck is 52 feet, what are the lengths of the three sides?

Acertain population of bacteria demonstrates exponential growth doubles in size every 4 days. how long will it take the population to triple in size?

For a field trip to the zoo, 4 students rode in cars and the rest filled nine busess. how many students were in each bus if 472 students were on the trip

Aplane is taking off from bangladesh headed to new york city. at the same time, a plane from new york city is headed to bangladesh is also taking off. the plane bound to new york city is traveling at 600 mph, while the plane traveling to bangladesh is traveling at 400 mph. how far from new york city will the two planes meet if the distance between new york city and bangladesh is 8,000 miles?