What does the upside-down "u" mean?

John read the first 114 pages of a novel, which was 3 pages less than 1/3 of the novel. write an equation to determine the total number of pages (p)(p) in the novel.

Alana has 12.5 cups of flour with which she is baking four loaves of raisin bread and one large pretzel. the pretzel requires 2.5 cups of flour to make. how much flour is in each loaf of raisin bread? explain the steps to follow to get the answer.

Two line segments are shown in the figure below. suppose that the length of the line along the x-axis is 6, and the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle is 10. what is the equation of the hypotenuse line (shown in red, below)?