Apizza stand at an outdoor festival is going to sell slices of pizza. last year the stand sold two kinds: cheese and sausage. the ratio of cheese slices sold to total slices sold was 9: 16. the sold 288 cheese slices last year. how many sausage slices were sold?

The la dodgers hit the most homeruns in 2014. the number of homeruns accounted for 6% of the entire major leauge baseball homerun count. if 583 total homeruns were hit, approximately how many did the la dodgers hit

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

Thales was an ancient philosopher familiar with similar triangles. one story about him says that he found the height of a pyramid by measuring its shadow and his own shadow at the same time. if the person is 5-ft tall, what is the height of the pyramid in the drawing?