It is the policy of stores owned by the Talkara Co. to give out bonuses to salespeople every six months. The size of the bonus is determined by averaging (taking the mean of) the two highest and the lowest monthly sales totals from the six-month period, taking 8% of the result, and splitting it evenly among the salespeople. The graph below shows sales for the most recent bonus period. A bar graph titled Total Sales has month on the x-axis and sales (dollars times 1,000) on the y-axis. July, 27.7; August, 25.6; September, 19.7; October, 25.3; November, 23.6; December, 22.2. If there are six salespeople, how much money will each one receive, to the nearest dollar? a. $243 b. $309 c. $324 d. $355

Factor completely. 4p^2 + 36p + 81 express the answer in the form (ap + b)^2

Fabian harvests 10 pounds of tomatoes from his garden. he needs 225 pounds to make a batch of soup. if he sets aside 2.8 pounds of tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce, how many batches of soup can fabian make?

Which themes are portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? praskovya fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. ivan ilyich might have aspired to a more brilliant match, but even this was good. he had his salary, and she, he hoped, would have an equal income. she was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. to say that ivan ilyich married because he fell in love with praskovya fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match. he was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. so ivan ilyich got married. conforming to social conventions criticism of a middle class lifestyle the destructive impact of loneliness struggling to face reality the necessity of companionship