Maura's class is painting the brick wall behind the basketball court. 19 bricks were already painted, and each student paints 20 more bricks in whatever
color he or she wants.
Let s represent the number of students and b represent the total number of
painted bricks.
Use the function b = 20s + 19 to find the value of b when s = 8.
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The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

The architect's side view drawing of a saltbox-style house shows a post that supports the roof ridge. the support post is 8 ft tall. the distance from the front of the house to the support post is less than the distance from the post to the back of the house. how far from the front of the house is the support post positioned?

What is the slope of the line that contains the points (-5, 6) and (14. - 7)?