Barb is making a necklace. she string 1 white bead, then 3 blue beads, then 1 white bead, and so on. write the numbers for the first eight beads that are white. what is the rule for the pattern?

Draw a tape diagram to represent each situation. for some of the situations, you need to decide what to represent with a variable andre bakes 9 pans of brownies. he donates 7 pans to the school bake sale and keeps the rest to divide equally among his class of 30 students

Astudent draws two parabolas on graph paper. both parabolas cross the x-axis at (–4, 0) and (6, 0). the y-intercept of the first parabola is (0, –12). the y-intercept of the second parabola is (0, –24). what is the positive difference between the a values for the two functions that describe the parabolas? write your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth

Find the derivative of the function