The part of the quadratic formula that is known as the discriminant?
√ b2-4ac
The book, Inside Out and Back Again, uses a lot of figurative language. For example, "Black seeds spill like clusters of eyes, wet and crying." What type of figurative language is this?
Simile
Fake news that's purpose is to entertain and make humour, rather than intending to mislead readers.
Satire
The type of fossil where an organism is preserved by a yellowish resin produced by a coniferous tree.
Amber
You are playing around with your knife when it happens to slip out of your hands and accidentally cuts your vein. It is bleeding a lot, and it hurts. What should you do?
Depending on how much of the vein you harmed, it could compare to what happens when you get a shot at the doctor. If it is a non-important vein, then applying pressure or placing a bandage should be enough. If it's an important vein, please seek medical help immediately.
Factor out the following question and find the solutions:
15x2 -11x-56
Factored Factored: (3x-7)(5x+8)
Solutions: x= 7/3, -8/5
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement:
If someone gets lower than a 70, then they all must retake the assessment.
Do the pronouns agree?
If they don't, replace the pronoun with the proper one.
The pronoun does not agree.
They all should be replaced by everyone or he/she.
Out of the Spanish, the English, and the French/Dutch, which country was the most friendly to the Native Americans when they came to the New World?
French/Dutch
How is algal bloom harmful to all living organisms living within it?
Algal Bloom is the mass production of algae. Since algae is also a living organism it uses oxygen in order to survive. When algal bloom occurs, more oxygen is being used, suffocating life below the algae. It also prevents sunlight, which many organisms underneath water need to survive.
You are in the savannah, and there is a cheetah that wants to eat you. You can either climb up a tree or jump into the nearest lake. What should you do?
Climb up a tree. Cheetah's body is built by aerodynamics, so they can outrun any living thing. What their bodies are not built for are climbing trees. They have non-retractable claws, which makes it harder for them to climb.
Find the horizontal asymptote of the following equation:
f(x)= (20x-7)/(4x-5)
y=5
What type of irony is this?
Rain was painting his picture of a bird, but when he turned around everyone was laughing at the big splotch of paint on his back. He was oblivious to the paint, so he turned to finish his painting.
Dramatic Irony, because Rain doesn't know about the splotch of paint, while only the other kids and we know about the paint.
What was the Mayflower Compact? What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
What are the crust and the uppermost mantle (solid) called?
The lithosphere
You are cooking your lunch and somehow you start a fire in the oven. You do not want to ruin your lunch by making it soggy and you have no fire extinguishers near you. What should you do?
Don't touch anything and especially don't open the oven door. Doing so will feed the fire more oxygen making the fire bigger. Let the fire die out on its own. If it doesn't, call 911.
Which of these shapes could represent the cross-section of a cone?
A. Circle
B.Triangle
C. Oval
D. Rectangle
E.Trapezoid
A,B,C
What is the difference between an act and a scene?
An act has a longer duration, and it contains scenes within itself. A scene is shorter and consists of a brief amount of dialogue and action.
Even though Benjamin Franklin was a federalist, he felt that __________________.
The states should also have some power.
The three eras of time from youngest to oldest.
The Cenozoic, the Mesozoic, and the Paleozoic
After hurting your vein, you decide not to play with the knife and put it away. You have to arrive at school in a few minutes and you are already running late. You run by your front door and feel another stab of pain. This time you cut your artery. What should you do?
Clean the wound and apply the pressure.Then immediately go to a doctor, especially if it's an important artery. Cutting your artery is more dangerous because arteries are high pressure, so there will be a higher blood loss and your pulse will suffer.
Which point/points on concurrency can occur outside or on the triangle?
A.Centroid
B.Orthocenter
C.Circumcenter
D.Incenter
B and C
What was the narrator of Inside Out and Back Again?
Ha
Region of the U.S. that is specialized in manufacturing and trade systems.
Northwest
________ ____________ helps produce energy to for metabolism. Another function metabolism needs to occur is _______________.
First Blank: Cellular Respiration
Second Blank: Homeostasis
You are stranded on a tropical island surrounded by water, and you are cold and hungry. You need to start a fire, so you gather some wood, but you realize you don't know how to make a fire. You push up your glasses as you start to think about how to start a fire. How do you start the fire?
Using your glasses, you take a drop of water and place it on the inner side of your glasses to create a biconvex. Now your glasses can bend light and intensify the light. Using the wood, concentrate your glasses through a ray of sun and focus it upon the wood. This will produce a flame, while the wood continues to feed it.