Officials begin to release water from a full man-made lake at a rate that would empty the lake in 14 weeks, but a river that can fill the lake in 20 weeks is replenishing the lake at the same time. How many weeks does it take to empty the lake? Express your answer as a fraction reduced to lowest terms, if needed. weeks

Which of the fallowing best completes the sequence 12,8,5, a) 1 b) 2 c)4 d)0

Simonne used the following steps to simplify the given expression. 12 - 3(-2x + 4) step 1: 12 + (–3)·(–2x) + (–3)·(4) step 2: 12 + 6x + (–12) step 3: 12 + (–12) + 6x step 4: 0 + 6x step 5: 6x what property of real numbers was used to transition from step 3 to step 4? a. identity property of addition b. inverse property of addition c. associative property of addition d. commutative property of addition

What kinds of numbers make up the set of numbers called the real numbers? give examples when you explain a number type. there are a limited set of types of numbers, but an unlimited number of examples of these numbers.