a whale descends 382.5 feet in 45 seconds. write an expression that can be used to find the average elavation change of the whale during its descent , in feet per second .

Apatient is to take 60 mg of an antibiotic on day 1, take 45mg on days 2 and 3, take 30mg on days 4 and 5 and take 15 mg on days 6 and 7. how many total mg will the patient take?

The train station clock runs too fast and gains 5 minutes every 10 days. how many minutes and seconds will it have gained at the end of 9 days?

Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297