A start-up company opened with 8 employees. The company's growth plan assumes that 2 new
employees will be hired each quarter (every
3 months) for the first 5 years. If an equation is
written in the form y = ax + b to represent the
number of employees, y, employed by the
company x quarters after the company opened, what
is the value of b?

Suppose you are an avid reader and are looking to save money on the cost of books instead of paying about $20 for each book, you decide to look into purchasing a kindle for $120 you can purchase e-books for about $5 each 1. find the slope-intercept equation for the cost of the hard copy of books using x to represent the number of books 2. find the slope-intercept equation for the cost of the kindle with cost of e-books using x to represent the number of books

Aclassmate thinks that solving a system by graphing gives an exact answer when the lines appear to cross at a grid point, but only an approximate answer when they don't. explain why this isn't true.

Currently, the largest cruise ship has a tonnage of 225,282 gross tons (gt). which of the following is a reasonable estimate for the tonnage of this cruise ship? a. 2 × 10^5 gt b. 2 × 10^6 gt c. 2 × 10^-5 gt d. 2 × 10^-6 gt