When 8 is subtracted from a certain number and the result is multoplied by 3
the answer is 21. What is the original number?

1: 4 if the wew 35 surfboards at the beach how many were short boards?

You are standing next to a really big circular lake. you want to measure the diameter of the lake, but you don't want to have to swim across with a measuring tape! you decide to walk around the perimeter of the lake and measure its circumference, and find that it's 400\pi\text{ m}400? m. what is the diameter dd of the lake?

Question 2 (essay worth 10 points) (03.02 mc) in δabc shown below, point a is at (0, 0), point b is at (x2, 0), point c is at (x1, y1), point d is at x sub 1 over 2, y sub 1 over 2, and point e is at the quantity of x sub 1 plus x sub 2 over 2, y sub 1 over 2: triangle abc is shown. point d lies on segment ac and point e lies on segment bc. a segment is drawn between points d and e. point a is at the origin. prove that segment de is parallel to segment ab.