To encourage Jack to read during the summer, his father offers an incentive (reward). He will pay Jack $5 for the first book he reads. For each additional book Jack reads, his father will pay him an amount that is equal to some percentage, x, of the amount he paid for the previous book. Jack's father agrees to let Jack choose a value for x, and Jack would obviously like his total earnings to be as large as possible.

(05.02)a farmer has decided to divide his land area in half in order to plant soy and corn. calculate the area of the entire area so he knows how much soil is needed. a parallelogram with a height of 6 yards and side length 9 yards. the height forms a triangle with the slanted side of the rhombus with a base of 2.5 yards. rhombus is split into a soy half and a corn half. each bag of soil covers 40 square yards. how many bags should the farmer purchase?

Given: ab ≅ bc and ao ≅ oc ok − angle bisector of ∠boc find: m∠aok

You went to a restaurant and spent $53.25 on the meal. there was a 6% sales tax. what was the amount of money, not including a tip, you spent at the restaurant?