A science class is tracking the progress of plant growth. The class starts the experiment with a plant five centimeters high. The plant grows two centimeters each day. The model for plant growth "y" is given by: y = 2x + 5. What is the meaning of the y-intercept in this equation?

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. he needs to schedule employee to staff the deli department for no more that 260 person-hours per week. tom has one part-time employee who works 20 person-hours per week. each full-time employee works 40 person-hours per week. write and inequality to determine n, the number of full-time employees tom may schedule, so that his employees work on more than 260 person-hours per week. graph the solution set to this inequality.

Traffic on saturday, it took ms. torres 24 minutes to drive 20 miles from her home to her office. during friday's rush hour, it took 75 minutes to drive the same distance. a. what was ms. torres's average speed in miles per hour on saturday? b. what was her average speed in miles per hour on friday?

Which term describes the point where the perpendicular bisectors of the three sides of a triangle intersect?