A book sold 42,000 copies in its first month of release. Suppose this represents 9.6 of the number of copies sold to date. How many copies have been sold to date?

437,500 copies

Step-by-step explanation:

42,000 copies were sold in the first month and this is 9.6% of the total that have been sold till date:

To find the total that have been sold till date, assume the amount to be x.

Expression will be:

9.6%x = 42,000

x = 42,000 / 9.6%

x = 42,000 / 0.096

x = 437,500 copies

437,500 copies have been sold to date.

- "runner b is moving at a slower rate."

- "the graphs shown are graphs of distance(km) against time(min).

the slopes of this graphs are are given by:

slope = (change in y)/(change in x)

= (change in distance)/(change in time)

this is the formula for finding the speed. so, the slope of these graphs represent the speed of the runner.

taking each division in the graph to represent 1 on both axis:

runner a ⇒ speed = (2-0)/(1-0)

= 2/1

= 2 km/min

runner b ⇒ speed = (3-0)/(3-0)

= 3/3

= 1 km/min

this shows that   runner b is moving at a slower rate."