An oil refinery is located 1 km north of the north bank of a straight river that is 2 km wide. A pipeline is to be constructed from the refinery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 7 km east of the refinery. The cost of laying pipe is $500,000/km over land to a point P on the north bank and $1,000,000/km under the river to the tanks. To minimize the cost of the pipeline, how far downriver from the refinery should the point P be located

Explain why the two figures below are not similar. use complete sentences and provide evidence to support your explanation. (10 points) figure abcdef is shown. a is at negative 4, negative 2. b is at negative 3, 0. c is at negative 4, 2. d is at negative 1, 2. e

Ahiking trail is 6 miles long. it has 4 exercise stations, spaced evenly along the trail. what is the distance between each exercise station?

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.