When graphed, which parabola opens downward

Adepartment store purchases screen-printed t-shirts at a cost of $5 per shirt. they mark up the price 150% (making the selling price 250% of the store's purchase price) and put them on the sales floor. every month that a t-shirt doesn't sell, the store reduces the selling price by 25%.

Laura read 1/8 of a comic book in 2 days. she reads the same number of pages every day. what part of the book does she read in a week

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry. how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.