Yolanda was standing on the middle step of a staircase, painting a wall. She went up four steps to touch up a spot, then she went down five steps to continue painting. When she finished everything within reach, she went down six steps to the first step. Which step was the middle step. How many steps were there in the staircase. Use backwards working

() at a farm, animals are fed bales of hay and buckets of gain.each bale of hay is in the shape of a rectangular prism.the base side lengths 2 feet and 3 feet,and the height is 5 feet. each bucket of grain is a cylinder with diameter of 3 feet. the height of the bucket is 5 feet as the height of bale. a. which is larger in area, the rectangular base of the bale or the circular base of the bucket? explain how you know b. which is larger in volume, the bale or the bucket? explain how you know

There are three bags: a (contains 2 white and 4 red balls), b (8 white, 4 red) and c (1 white 3 red). you select one ball at random from each bag, observe that exactly two are white, but forget which ball came from which bag. what is the probability that you selected a white ball from bag a?

Point r divides in the ratio 1 : 5. if the coordinates of e and f are (4, 8) and (11, 4), respectively, what are the coordinates of r to two decimal places?