Which simplified expression represents the area of the parallelogram

Compare the subtraction problems 6/8 - 5/8 = 1/8 and 6/9 - 7/9 = 1/9 why is the answer to the first problem positive and the answer to the second problem negative

Two planes leave an airport at the same time, one flying east, the other flying west. the eastbound plane travels 20 mph slower. they are 1600 mi apart after 2 hr. find the speed of each plane.

Lems1. the following data set represents the scores on intelligence quotient(iq) examinations of 40 sixth-grade students at a particular school: 114, 122, 103, 118, 99, 105, 134, 125, 117, 106, 109, 104, 111, 127,133, 111, 117, 103, 120, 98, 100, 130, 141, 119, 128, 106, 109, 115,113, 121, 100, 130, 125, 117, 119, 113, 104, 108, 110, 102(a) present this data set in a frequency histogram.(b) which class interval contains the greatest number of data values? (c) is there a roughly equal number of data in each class interval? (d) does the histogram appear to be approximately symmetric? if so, about which interval is it approximately symmetric?