A farmer has 1200 feet of fence to enclose a rectangular plot of borders a river. the river will serve as one side of the paddock , so no fence is needed among the river. What is the maximum area that can be enclosed?

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?

Solve each quadratic equation by factoring and using the zero product property. [tex]x^2+6x+8=0[/tex]

Rhombus adef is inscribed into a triangle abc so that they share angle a and the vertex e lies on the side bc . what is the length of the side of the rhombus if ab=c, and ac=b.