A narrow arch supporting a stone bridge is in the shape of half of an ellipse and is 24 meters long and 8 meters high. A person standing at one location throws a rubber ball against the arch. No matter what direction the ball is thrown it always bounces off the arch once and strikes the same point on the ground. What is the distance between he person throwing the ball and the point on the ground at which the ball first strikes

Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr jekyll and mr. hyde what do dr. jekyll's thoughts reveal about him in this excerpt? [t]he inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber, and i determined, flushed as i was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom. i crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, i could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to he is jealous of those who can sleep through the night. he is revered for his scientific advances. he is interested in studying the movements of the stars he is proud and enthusiastic about his initial results.

Many newspapers carry a certain puzzle in which the reader must unscramble letters to form words. how many ways can the letters of emdangl be arranged? identify the correct unscrambling, then determine the probability of getting that result by randomly selecting one arrangement of the given letters.

What is the best estimate of the length of a football