To create the right balance of sound, a conductor wants his orchestra to have 2 horn players for every 5 string players. If 40 string players are hired to play a concert, how many horn players would you expect to be hired

The equation x2 – 1x – 90 = 0 has solutions {a, b}. what is a + b?

The distance between a football fsaid and a parking lot is 135 feet. what is that length in yards? 2 mickey needs to cut pieces of ribbon that are each 1 meter long to tie onto balloons. if he has 8 pieces of ribbon that are each 1 dekameter long, how many 1-meter pieces of ribbon can he cut? show work

Abc is dilated by a scale factor of 3 with the origin as the center of dilation, resulting in the image a'b'c'. if the slope of line ab is -1.2, what is the slope of line a'b'? a. -1.2b. 3.6c. 1.2d 1.8