Jack is 5 1/2 feet tall and casts a 9-ft shadow. at the same time, a basketball hoop casts a 24-foot shadow. how tall is the basketball hoop?

anyone? find the second, fifth, and ninth terms of a sequence where the first term is 65 and the common difference is -7. 72, 93, 121 72, 79, 86 58, 37, 9 58, 51, 44

Kapil needed to buy a long wooden beam. he went to two sawmills that each charge an initial fee plus an additional fee for each meter of wood. the following equation gives the price (in dollars) of a wooden beam from the first sawmill as a function of its length (in meters). p = 5+20xp=5+20x

Ariana starts with 100 milligrams of a radioactive substance. the amount of the substance decreases by 20% each week for a number of weeks, w. the expression 100(1−0.2)w finds the amount of radioactive substance remaining after w weeks. which statement about this expression is true? a) it is the difference between the initial amount and the percent decrease. b) it is the difference between the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks. c) it is the initial amount raised to the decay factor after w weeks. d) it is the product of the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks.