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Apackage of bacon holds 15 strips of bacon. the pancake house uses 17 packages of bacon in the morning and 21 packages in the afternoon. how many more strips were used in the afternoon than the morning?

Arley is building a model of a city map. in one part of the city, three roads form a right triangle, which harley draws as triangle abc, with the following measures: m∠b=90° and m∠a=30°. in his scale model, the hypotenuse of triangle abc, ac¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯, has a length of 817−−√ cm. what is the value of a (the length of bc¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯)?