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Rewrite the following without an exponent. (5/8)-1

Find cot x if sin x cot x csc x = √2

Me its important ! marge runs an ice cream parlor. her speciality is triple chocolate sundaes. she can prepare 1 sundae every 2 minutes, and she earns $1.20 for each sundae she makes . if she just makes sundaes for a single shift of at most 4 hours and at least 2 hours , which function relates her earnings to the number of minutes she works?