You are building a new house on a cartesian plane whose units are measured in miles.
your house is to be located at the point (2,0). unfortunately, the
existing gas line follows the curve y=√16x2+5x+16.
it costs 400 dollars per mile to install new pipe connecting your house to the existing line.
what is the least amount of money you could pay to get hooked up to the system?

1. according to the internal revenue service, the mean tax refund for the year 2007 was $2,708. assume the standard deviation is $650 and that the amounts refunded follow a normal probability distribution. a. what percent of the refunds are more than $3,000? b. what percent of the refunds are more than $3,000 but less than $4,000? c. what percent of the refunds are less than $2,000?

What is the slope of the line? a. -5/2 b.2/5 c. 5/2 d.7/2

Each unit cost 14p, how much would 942 units cost?