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Huong is organizing paperback and hardback books for her club's used book sale. the number of paperbacks is 12 less than three times the number of hardbacks. huong had 162 paperbacks. how many hardback books were there?

You coordinate volunteers for litter cleanup in local parks. your spreadsheet lists drivers and the number of seat belts in each driver’s car. the spreadsheet calculates the number of drivers (d) and the total number of seat belts (s). you want to know the maximum number of volunteers, besides drivers, that can be transported to the park in a single trip given that each person must have a seat belt of their own.

What are the coordinates of a vertex of the hyperbola?