Madelyn cut a 60-inch pipe cleaner into two unequal pieces, and then she used each piece to make a square. the sum of the areas of the squares was 117 square inches. let x be the length of one piece. write and solve an equation to represent the situation and find the lengths of the two original pieces.

The decibel level of sound is 50 db greater on a busy street than in a quiet room where the intensity of sound is watt/m2. the level of sound in the quiet room is db, and the intensity of sound in the busy street is watt/m2. use the formula , where is the sound level in decibels, i is the intensity of sound, and is the smallest sound intensity that can be heard by the human ear (roughly equal to watts/m2).

An object is translated by (x + 4, y - 2). if one point in the image has the coordinates (5, -3), what would be the coordinates of its pre-image? (9, -5) (1, -5) (9, -1) (1, -1)

Ken earned $128 from his part-time job this summer. he spent 25% of his money on games. he is going to donate 1/6 of the remaining money to charity. how much money will the charity receive?