50% of what number is 8

Trish receives $450 on the first of each month. josh receives $450 on the last day of each month. both trish and josh will receive payments for next four years. at a discount rate of 9.5 percent, what is the difference in the present value of these two sets of payments?

Gregory draws a scale drawing of his room. the scale that he uses is 1 cm : 4 ft. on his drawing, the room is 3 centimeters long. which equation can be used to find the actual length of gregory's room?

Astuntman jumping off a 20-m-high building is modeled by the equation h=20-5t^2, where t is the same in seconds. a high-speed camera is ready to film him between 15m and 10m above the ground. for which interval of time should the camera film him?