Students at Mendel Middle School are planning a fair for their school's fundraiser. Liam volunteers to help plan the event. The first month, he volunteered for x hours. The next month, he volunteered for 1 2/3 times as many hours as he had the first month. If he volunteered for a total of 40 hours, how many hours did he volunteer during the first month? Write an equation to represent the situation and solve.

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?

Of the ones listed here, the factor that had the greatest impact on the eventual destruction of native americans' ways of life was the development of the a) automobile. b) highway. c) railroad. d) steamboat.

Write the expression as a single natural logarithm. 2 in a - 4 in y