In 2004, there were 3,344 amusement parks and arcades. This decreased by 148 by 2009. Write and evaluate an expression to find the number of amusement parks and arcades in 2009.

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?

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

The label on the car's antifreeze container claims to protect the car between ? 40°c and 125°c. to convert celsius temperature to fahrenheit temperature, the formula is c = 5 over 9 (f ? 32). write and solve the inequality to determine the fahrenheit temperature range at which this antifreeze protects the car. ? 40 > 5 over 9 (f ? 32) > 125; ? 40 > f > 257 ? 40 < 5 over 9 (f ? 32) < 125; ? 40 < f < 257 ? 40 < 5 over 9 (f ? 32); ? 40 < f 5 over 9 (f ? 32) < 125; f < 257