a diet plan claims that people who follow the diet lose an average of 2 pounds per week. if this claim is true, what is the average change in weight for people who follow the diet for 4 weeks? use an integer in your answer.

The base of a triangle exceeds the height by 9 inches. if the area is 180 square inches, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.

Long division setup showing an incomplete calculation. 12 is in the divisor, 6839 is in the dividend, and 5 hundreds and 6 tens is written in the quotient. 6000 is subtracted from 6839 to give 839. an unknown value represented by a box is being subtracted from 839. what number should be placed in the box to complete the division calculation?

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.