A dealer currently makes a profit of x% of his cost when he sells goods. If the dealer could get his goods for 8% less while keeping his selling price fixed, his profit would be increased to (x+10)% of his cost. Find x.

In a test for esp (extrasensory perception), a subject is told that cards only the experimenter can see contain either a star, a circle, a wave, or a square. as the experimenter looks at each of 20 cards in turn, the subject names the shape on the card. a subject who is just guessing has probability 0.25 of guessing correctly on each card. a. the count of correct guesses in 20 cards has a binomial distribution. what are n and p? b. what is the mean number of correct guesses in 20 cards for subjects who are just guessing? c. what is the probability of exactly 5 correct guesses in 20 cards if a subject is just guessing?

The angle of elevation from point a to the top of the cliff is 38 degrees. if point a is 80 feet from the base of the cliff , how high is the cliff ?

Graph the equation 8x - 4y = 56. then, trace the graph to find the missing value in the coordinate pairs below: (-10, 140 ) (0, ) (2, ) (4, ) ( , 0)