Suppose Jerome reads the following numbers of pages each day. Will he meet his goal of reading at least 85 pages by the end of the day Friday?

Step-by-step explanation:

Jerome has already read 50 pages of a novel and read p pages each day from Monday to Friday.

If Jerome read at least 85 pages by the end of Friday, inequality will be,

50 + 5p ≥ 85

If Jerome reads 6 pages each day,

For p = 6,

Inequality will be,

50 + 5(6) ≥ 85

80 ≥ 85

It's not true.

Therefore, he will not meet his goal.

If p = 7,

Inequality will be,

50 + 5(7) ≥ 85

85 ≥ 85

It's true.

Therefore, he will meet his goal.

If p = 8,

Inequality will be,

50 + 5(8) ≥ 85

90 ≥ 85

It's true.

Therefore, he will meet his goal.

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step-by-step explanation:

something that characterises a right triangle is the fact that we may use pythagoras' theorem to find any one of its sides given that we have the length of the other two sides. here, we have the length of the hypotenuse, √(87) yd, and one other side, √(23) yd, thus we can easily find the length of the remaining side using pythagoras' theorem as defined below:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2, where c is the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b are the lengths of the other two sides.

thus, given that c = √(87) and a = √(23), we may substitute these into the formula we defined above to get:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

(√87)^2 = (√23)^2 + b^2 (substitute c = √87 and a = √23 into the equation)

87 = 23 + b^2 (evaluate (√87)^2 = 87 and (√23)^2 = 23 - remember that the square root of a number, squared will equal that very same number)

64 = b^2 (subtract 23 from both sides)

√64 = b (take the square root of both sides)

8 = b (evaluate √64 = 8)

therefor, the length of the unknown leg in the right triangle is 8 yd (first answer).