If a² -2ab + b² = 9 and a what is the value of a - b?

Shryia read a 481 -page-long book cover to cover in a single session, at a constant rate. after reading for 1.5 hours, she had 403 pages left to read. how fast was shryia reading? pages per hour how long did it take her to read the entire book? hours plz i realy need this

You drop a rubber ball off the roof of a 50 meter high building onto a paved parking lot. it bounces back up with every bounce, but not quite all the way back up to you. after the first bounce it bounces back only 80 percent of the distance it was dropped from. the pattern continues, meaning after every bounce it comes up to just 80 percent of the previous maximum height. so if before the first bounce the height is 50 meters, what height does the ball reach after the fifth bounce? round your answer to one decimal place and chose the correct response from the choices below:

Savannah is painting a striped background for a mural on a wall that is 1515 yards long. she wants a total of 9696 stripes that are all the same width. which calculation should savannah use to decide how wide to make each stripe?