The function f(x) = -0.25% + 5 models the height of a candle x seconds after it is lit. What is the meaning of the slope of the function?

1. the wheeling bridge in west virginia is about 307 meters long. if you walk with a stride of about meter, about how many steps would it take you to cross this suspension bridge?

At the "no mutants allowed" country farm, every sheep has 4 legs, every chicken has two legs, and all animals have only 1 head. asked to count how many sheep and chicken are in the fields, a farm boy reports back that there are 140 feet and 50 heads. how many sheep and chicken are there? there are sheep and chicken at the farm.

Suppose that in 2008 , 840,800 citizens died of a certain disease assuming the population of teh country is 399 miliion, what is the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100,000 people?