The base of a triangle is shrinking at a rate of 5 cm/s and the height of the triangle is increasing at a rate of 9 cm/s. Find the rate at which the area of the triangle changes when the height is 12 cm and the base is 4 cm. Provide your answer below:
The rate of change of the area of the triangle is ___ cm²/s.

Find the measure of angle a in the following triangle

An oil exploration company currently has two active projects, one in asia and the other in europe. let a be the event that the asian project is successful and b be the event that the european project is successful. suppose that a and b are independent events with p(a) = 0.2 and p(b) = 0.8. (a) if the asian project is not successful, what is the probability that the european project is also not successful? (b) what is the probability that at least one of the two projects will be successful? (c) given that at least one of the two projects is successful, what is the probability that only the asian project is successful? (round your answer to three decimal places.)

Mr. piper is driving peter, roddy, and scott home from school. all of them want to ride in the front seat. how can he make a fair decision about who rides in the front seat?