A square carpet of side length 9 feet is designed with one large shaded square and eight smaller, congruent shaded squares, as shown. If the ratios $9:\text{S}$ and $\text{S}:\text{T}$ are both equal to 3 and $\text{S}$ and $\text{T}$ are the side lengths of the shaded squares, what is the total shaded area?

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Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato

Suppose that 15 inches of wire cost 60 cents. at the same rate, how much (in cents) will 12 inches of wire cost