A store sells hardcover books for $8 and paperback books for $5. You buy 9 books, represented by the equation x + y = 9, where x is the number of hardcover books and y is the number of paperback books. The equation 8x + 5y = 57 represents the total cost. How many of each type of book did you buy?

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?

Arestaurant gives out a scratch-off card to every customer. the probability that a customer will win a prize from a scratch-off card is 25%. design and conduct a simulation using random numbers to find the experimental probability that a customer will need more than 3 cards in order to win a prize. justify the model for your simulation, and conduct at least 10 trials.

Determine whether the quadrilateral below is a parallelogram. justify/explain your answer (this means back it up! give specific information that supports your decision. writing just "yes" or "no" will result in no credit.)