Charles is eight years older than five times Mark's age. If Charles is 63 years old, how old is Mark?

The u-drive rent-a-truck company plans to spend $13 million on 320 new vehicles. each commercial van will cost $25 comma 000, each small truck $50 comma 000, and each large truck  $80 comma 000. past experience shows that they need twice as many vans as small trucks. how many of each type of vehicle can they buy?

Aprisoner is trapped in a cell containing three doors. the first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after two days of travel. the second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after three days of travel. the third door leads immediately to freedom. (a) assuming that the prisoner will always select doors 1, 2 and 3 with probabili- ties 0.5,0.3,0.2 (respectively), what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (b) assuming that the prisoner is always equally likely to choose among those doors that he has not used, what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (in this version, if the prisoner initially tries door 1, for example, then when he returns to the cell, he will now select only from doors 2 and 3.) (c) for parts (a) and (b), find the variance of the number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom. hint for part (b): define ni to be the number of additional days the prisoner spends after initially choosing door i and returning to his cell.

Written as a simplified polynomial in standard form, what is the result when (2x+8)^2(2x+8) 2 is subtracted from 8x^2-38x 2 −3?