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Ms. sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. the table shows her data. how does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest? word count tends to decrease as the score decreases. word count tends to increase as the score decreases. word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases. word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

Point a is located at (0, 4), and point c is located at (−3, 5). find the x value for the point b that is located one fourth the distance from point a to point c. −0.25 −0.5 −0.75 −1

In right ∆abc shown below, the midpoint of hypotenuse ac is located at d and segment bd is drawn. if ab = 12 and bc = 16, then explain why bd = 10. hint: consider what you know about the diagonals of a rectangle.