Acarpenter has a wooden stick that is 84 centimeters long. she cuts off 25% from the end of the stick. then she cuts the rest of the stick into 6 equal pieces. what is the length of each piece?

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?

Joseph haydn pet store offers wide variety of leashes for dogs. the store purchases one popular type of leash from its manufacturer for $4.38 each. joseph haydn pets marks up leashes at a rate of 238% of cost. what is the retail price of the popular leash?

Two customers went to a post office. first customer paid $12 for 14 and 5 envelopes the second paid 24.80 for 10 postcards and 15 envelopes. what is cost of each envelope?