Jesse is 6 feet tall and wants to know the height of the tree in his yard. He places a mirror on the ground between him and the tree. When he is 4 feet from the mirror he can see the reflection of the tree in the mirror. At this time the tree is 9.5 feet from the mirror. How tall is the tree?

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 104 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 105 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.

If $740 is invested at an interest rate of 11% per year and is compounded continuously, how much will the investment be worth in 7 years? use the continuous compound interest formula a = pert.

What is the graph of the absolute value equation ? y=|x|-5