In a stairway, the slope of the handrail is the ratio of the riser to the tread. if the tread is 12 inches long and the riser is 8 inches
long, find the slope.

Asmall (but heavy) particle placed in a glass of water will follow a zigzag motion because the particle will bounce off of the water molecules it meets. this is called brownian motion. a physicist simulates this on a computer, by varying the distance a particle can travel (called the mean free length), on average, before it collides with a water molecule and assigning the change in motion to be one of 8 directions, each with a similar probability. by running the simulated particle (with the same mean free length) many times she determines that it should take 15 seconds, on average, for the particle to fall to the bottom, with a standard deviation of 1.5 seconds. next she lets a real particle fall through a glass of water and finds that it took 18 seconds. what does she conclude, and why?

Driving 75 mph, it takes alicia 2 hours to reach the airport to go on a vacation. it then takes her 4 hours to get to her destination with the jet traveling at a speed of 400 mph. how many miles does alicia travel to get to her destination?

Sundar used linear combination to solve the system of equations shown. he did so by multiplying the first equation by 5 and the second equation by another number to eliminate the y-terms. what number did sundar multiply the second equation by? 2x+9y=41 3x+5y=36