A Petri dish is growing bacteria. It starts with 3 cells on day 1, 9 cells on day 2, and continues tripling the number of cells every day after that. How many cells of bacteria are there on day 5? Use an exponent to write your answer.

Louise measured the perimeter of her rectangular scrapbook to be 154 cm. if the scrapbook is 45 cm wide, how long is the scrapbook?

Nick has box brads. he uses 4 brads for the first project. nick let’s b represent the original number of brads and finds that for the second project, the number of brads he uses is 8 more than half the difference of b and 4. write an expression to represent the number of brads he uses for the second project.

One hectometer is a) 1/1000 of a meter. b) 1/100 of a meter. c) 10 meters. d) 100 meters. e) 1000 meters.