Math: Algebra
What part of this equation represents the slope, and what represents the y-intercept?
y=mx+b
Slope= m
y-intercept = b
"The Rock and the Sea" is an 1893 poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the poem, a rock is portrayed as intending to confront and restrain the sea: ______
Which quotation from "The Rock and the Sea" most effectively illustrates the claim?
A. "I am the Rock. Black midnight falls; / The terrible breakers rise like walls; / With curling lips and gleaming teeth / They plunge and tear at my bones beneath."
B. "I am the Sea. The earth I sway; / Granite to me is potter’s clay; / Under the touch of my careless waves / It rises in turrets and sinks in caves."
C. "I am the Sea. I hold the land / As one holds an apple in his hand, / Hold it fast with sleepless eyes, / Watching the continents sink and rise."
D. "I am the Rock, presumptuous Sea! / I am set to encounter thee. / Angry and loud or gentle and still, / I am set here to limit thy power, and I will!"
D. "I am the Rock, presumptuous Sea! / I am set to encounter thee. / Angry and loud or gentle and still, / I am set here to limit thy power, and I will!"
Cal has 3 black pens and 7 blue pens. What is the ratio of the number of black pens she has to the number of blue pens she has?
3:7
n recommending Bao Phi’s collection Sông I Sing, a librarian noted that pieces by the spoken-word poet don’t lose their ______ nature when printed: the language has the same pleasant musical quality on the page as it does when performed by Phi.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. jarring
B. scholarly
C. melodic
D. personal
C. melodic
-3(m-2n-4)=-9
Given the equation, what's the value of m-2n?
7
Solve for x:
7-3x=28
x=-7
Alice Guy-Blaché directed hundreds of films between 1896 and 1920. She wanted audiences to feel like they were watching real people on screen. She would encourage actors in her films to behave naturally. Guy-Blaché even hung a large sign reading “Be Natural” in the studio where she made her films. At the time, films lacked sound, so actors needed to rely solely on their bodies and facial expressions to convey emotions. As a result, actors tended to highly exaggerate their actions and expressions. The style of acting in Guy-Blaché’s films was therefore ______.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. very unusual for the period.
B. copied by many of Guy-Blaché’s peers.
C. better than film acting today.
D. familiar to actors who had worked on other directors’ films.
A. very unusual for the period.
What are the two types of complimentary ratios?
Part-to-part ratios and part-to-whole ratios
Jackie Ormes’s Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem (1937–38) was the first comic strip by a Black woman to appear in a widely read newspaper. The strip tells the story of Torchy, a young woman who leaves Mississippi to become a performer in New York City. Torchy’s story reflects the experience of the Great Migration (1910–1970), when millions of Black Americans left the South in search of opportunities in other parts of the United States. Torchy Brown thus shows how Ormes used comics to comment humorously on issues affecting Black Americans, which she continued to do throughout her career.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
A. To give an example of how Ormes presented the experiences of Black Americans in her comic strips
B. To show how Ormes’s Torchy Brown inspired other Black women to write comic strips in the 1930s
C. To claim that several characters in Torchy Brown were based on people that Ormes knew personally
D. To illustrate how the subjects Ormes addressed in her comic strips changed over the course of her career
A. To give an example of how Ormes presented the experiences of Black Americans in her comic strips
Many marine animals rely on sound, which travels faster and farther through water than through air, for critical functions like communication and navigation. ______ sperm whales use intricate sequences of clicks known as “codas” to identify one another, coordinate group movements, and locate prey during deep foraging dives.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
A. Conversely,
B. For example,
C. Additionally,
D. Instead,
B. For example,
Solve for x:
-2x>9+4x
x<-3/2
Every day when Bill came back from his stroll he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the road. At first we thought it was the want of company of his own kind that made him ask this question, but at last we began to see he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did stay at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.
According to the text, why does Bill regularly ask about “seafaring men”?
A. He isn’t sure that other guests at the inn will be welcoming of sailors.
B. He’s trying to secure a job as part of the crew on a new ship.
C. He’s hoping to find an old friend and fellow sailor.
D. He doesn’t want to encounter any other sailor unexpectedly.
D. He doesn’t want to encounter any other sailor unexpectedly.
What's 150% of 8?
12
No matter how we cultivate the land,
Taming the forest and the prairie free;
No matter how we irrigate the sand,
Making the desert blossom at command,
We must always leave the borders of the sea;
The immeasureable reaches
Of the windy wave-wet beaches,
The million-mile-long margin of the sea.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
A. The speaker provides examples of an admirable way of approaching nature and then challenges that approach.
B. The speaker describes attempts to control nature and then offers a reminder that not all nature is controllable.
C. The speaker argues against interfering with nature and then gives evidence supporting this interference.
D. The speaker presents an account of efforts to dominate nature and then cautions that such efforts are only temporary.
B. The speaker describes attempts to control nature and then offers a reminder that not all nature is controllable.
A pyramid has a square base with a side length of 8 centimeters. The height of the pyramid is 3/4 as long as the side length of its base.
What is the volume of the pyramid in cubic centimeters?
Hint: Formula for the volume of a pyramid is V=1/3(l*w*h)
128 cubic centimeters
-2x-2y=4
6x+3y=12
How many solutions does this system have?
One
In their book Smart Pricing, Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang consider musicians’ use of the nontraditional “pay as you wish” pricing model. This model generally offers listeners the choice to pay more or less than a suggested price for a song or album—or even to pay nothing at all. As the authors note, that’s the option most listeners chose for an album by the band Harvey Danger. Only about 1% opted to pay for the album, resulting in earnings below the band’s expectations. But the authors also discuss musician Jane Siberry, who saw significant earnings from her “pay as you wish” online music store as a result of many listeners choosing to pay more than the store’s suggested prices. Hence, the “pay as you wish” model may ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
A. hold greater financial appeal for bands than for individual musicians.
B. cause most musicians who use the model to lower the suggested prices of their songs and albums over time.
C. prove financially successful for some musicians but disappointing for others.
D. more strongly reflect differences in certain musicians’ popularity than traditional pricing models do.
C. prove financially successful for some musicians but disappointing for others.
x: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
y: 5, 10, 20, 40, 80
What's an equation that could fit these values?
y = 2.5*2x or y = 5*2x-1
Business researcher Melanie Brucks and colleagues found that remote video conference meetings may be less conducive to brainstorming than in-person meetings are. The researchers suspect that video meeting participants are focused on staring at the speaker on the screen and don’t allow their eyes or mind to wander as much, which may ultimately ______ creativity.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A. recommed
B. criticize
C. construct
D. impede
D. impede
Louisa Ellis had been peacefully sewing at her sitting-room window all the afternoon. Now she quilted her needle carefully into her work, which she folded precisely, and laid in a basket with her thimble and thread and scissors. Louisa Ellis could not remember that ever in her life she had mislaid one of these little appurtenances, which had become, from long use and constant association, a very part of her personality. Louisa tied a green apron round her waist, and got out a flat straw hat with a green ribbon. Then she went into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. After the currants were picked she sat on the back door-step and stemmed them, collecting the stems carefully in her apron, and afterwards throwing them into the hen-coop. She looked sharply at the grass beside the step to see if any had fallen there.
What does the text most strongly suggest about Louisa Ellis?
A. Her careful handling of household items demonstrates her concern about replacing damaged possessions.
B. She’s primarily interested in maintaining the tidiness of the outdoor areas of her home.
C. She takes a meticulous and systematic approach to everyday tasks.
D. Her methodical approach to food preparation indicates that she particularly enjoys creating meals for herself.
C. She takes a meticulous and systematic approach to everyday tasks.
A car with a price of $17,000 is to be purchased with an initial payment of $5,000 and monthly payments of $240. Create an equation that can be used to find the number of monthly payments, m, then solve for it.
17,000=5,000+240m
m=50
Several studies of sediment (e.g., dirt, pieces of rock, etc.) in streams have shown an inverse correlation between sediment grain size and downstream distance from the primary sediment source, suggesting that stream length has a sorting effect on sediment. In a study of sediment sampled at more than a dozen sites in Alpine streams, however, geologists Camille Litty and Fritz Schlunegger found that cross-site variations in grain size were not associated with differences in downstream distance, though they did not conclude that downstream distance is irrelevant to grain size. Rather, they concluded that sediment influx in these streams may have been sufficiently spatially diffuse to prevent the typical sorting effect from being observed.
Which finding about the streams in the study, if true, would most directly support Litty and Schlunegger’s conclusion?
Choose 1 answer:Required
A. The streams contain several types of sediment that are not typically found in streams where the sorting effect has been demonstrated.
B. The streams are fed by multiple tributaries that carry significant volumes of sediment and that enter the streams downstream of the sampling sites.
C. The streams mostly originate from the same source, but their lengths vary considerably due to the different courses they take.
D. The streams regularly experience portions of their banks collapsing into the water at multiple points upstream of the sampling sites.
D. The streams regularly experience portions of their banks collapsing into the water at multiple points upstream of the sampling sites.
At a certain movie theater, the ratio of length to width of the movie screen is 16:9. If the length of the screen is 90 feet, then, to the nearest foot, how many feet is its width?
51 feet
Text 1: Because literacy in Nahuatl script, the writing system of the Aztec Empire, was lost after Spain invaded central Mexico in the 1500s, it is unclear exactly how meaning was encoded in the script’s symbols. Although many scholars had assumed that the symbols signified entire words, linguist Alfonso Lacadena theorized in 2008 that they signified units of language smaller than words: individual syllables.
Text 2: The growing consensus among scholars of Nahuatl script is that many of its symbols could signify either words or syllables, depending on syntax and content at any given site within a text. For example, the symbol signifying the word huipil (blouse) in some contexts could signify the syllable “pil” in others, as in the place name “Chipiltepec.” Thus, for the Aztecs, reading required a determination of how such symbols functioned each time they appeared in a text.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely characterize Lacadena’s theory, as described in Text 1?
A. By praising the theory for recognizing that the script’s symbols could represent entire words
B. By arguing that the theory is overly influenced by the work of earlier scholars
C. By approving of the theory’s/ emphasis on how the script changed over time
D. By cautioning that the theory overlooks certain important aspects of how the script functioned
D. By cautioning that the theory overlooks certain important aspects of how the script functioned
The temperature, T, within a rod x centimeters from the rod's left end is modeled by the following equation:
T = -110+0.13x(21-x)
Both ends of the rod have the same temperature. According to the model, what is the length of the rod in centimeters?
21 centimeters