The consumer price index (CPI), issued by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides a means of determining the purchasing power of the U. S. dollar from one year to the next. Using the period from 1982 to 1984 as a measure of 100.0, the CPI figures for selected years from 2002 to 2016 are shown here. Year Consumer Price Index 2002 179.9 2004 188.9 2006 201.6 2008 215.3 2010 218.1 2012 229.6 2014 236.7 2016 240.0 E. To use the CPI to predict a price in a particular year, we can set up a proportion and compare it with a known price in another year, as follows. price in year A index in year A price in year B index in year B​

Which themes are portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? praskovya fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. ivan ilyich might have aspired to a more brilliant match, but even this was good. he had his salary, and she, he hoped, would have an equal income. she was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. to say that ivan ilyich married because he fell in love with praskovya fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match. he was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. so ivan ilyich got married. conforming to social conventions criticism of a middle class lifestyle the destructive impact of loneliness struggling to face reality the necessity of companionship

Sundar used linear combination to solve the system of equations shown. he did so by multiplying the first equation by 5 and the second equation by another number to eliminate the y-terms. what number did sundar multiply the second equation by? 2x+9y=41 3x+5y=36

When is g(x) = 0 for the function g(x) = 5.23x + 4?