Explain why 1/6 is greater than 1/8 but less than 1/3

Acable car begins its trip by moving up a hill. as it moves up, it gains elevation at a constant rate of 50 feet/minute until it reaches the peak at 2,000 feet. then, as the car moves down to the hill’s base, its elevation drops at the same rate.

One month, a music site observed that 60% of the people who downloaded songs from its site downloaded q sam's latest single. the equation below represents this information, where x represents the total number of people who ddownloaded songs from the site that month: x = 0.6x + 384 how many people who downloaded songs from the site that month downloaded q sam's latest single?

What is the length of the segment, endpoints of which are intersections of parabolas y=x2? 11 4 x? 7 4 and y=? 7 8 x2+x+ 31 8 ?