The reflecting dish of a parabolic microphone has a cross-section in the shape of a parabola. The microphone itself is placed on the focus of the parabola. If the parabola is 40 inches wide and 20 inches deep, how far from the vertex should the microphone be placed?

a) 4 inches
b) 5 inches
c) 8 inches
d) 10 inches

This stem-and-leaf plot represents the heights of the students on ralph's basketball team. one student's height is missing from the plot. if the mean height of all the students on the team is 61 inches, what is the missing height? a. 55 in. b. 59 in. c. 61 in. d. 65 in.

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato

Charlie tosses five coins.what is the probability that all five coins will land tails up.