ten blackberry plants started growing in your yard. Absent constraints, blackberries will spread by 22% per month. Your yard can only sustain about 40 plants. Calculate the number of plants that will be in your yard after 1 month.

Aswimming pool has an input pump for filling the pool and an output pump for emptying the pool. the input pump can fill the pool in 3 hours, and the output pump can drain the pool in 5 hours. as you go to bed, the pool is full, but a neighbor’s kid turns on the output pump. at midnight, you awake to find the pool half empty. immediately, you turn on the input pump, but you are sleepy and forget to turn off the output pump. at what time will the pool become full?

Solve the following inequalities and show the solution on a number line. 2x+3< 3(4x+5)

Mike wants to make meatloaf. his recipe uses a total of 8 pounds of meat. if he uses a 3 to 1 ratio of beef to pork, how much pork will he use? enter your answer as a mixed number in simplest terms.