A balloon is floating above a lake and a sunken canoe is below the surface of the lake. The balloon’s vertical position is 12 meters and the canoe’s is -4.8 meters. The equation represents this situation.

Data are collected to see how many ice-cream cones are sold at a ballpark in a week. day 1 is sunday and day 7 is the following saturday. use the data from the table to create a scatter plot.

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Ahiker stands at an unknown elevation before he ascends 2 miles up a mountain to an elevation of 9 miles. find the elevation of the hiker before his ascent.