The pressure of water on a diver’s body is a linear function of the diver’s depth x feet below the surface of the water. At the water’s surface, the pressure is 1 atmosphere. When the diver is at a depth of 100 feet, the pressure is about 3.92 atmospheres.

How to determine whether two known pairs of points are on the same line.

Refer to interactive solution 17.45 to review a method by which this problem can be solved. the fundamental frequencies of two air columns are the same. column a is open at both ends, while column b is open at only one end. the length of column a is 0.504 m. what is the length of column b?

Subscriptions to a popular fashion magazine have gone down by a consistent percentage each year and can be modeled by the function y = 42,000(0.96)t. what does the value 42,000 represent in the function?