What is the value of a?
a) 5 units
b) 5 units
c) 6 units
d) 7 units

Adaylily farm sells a portion of their daylilies and allows a portion to grow and divide. the recursive formula an=1.5(an-1)-100 represents the number of daylilies, a, after n years. after the fifth year, the farmers estimate they have 2225 daylilies. how many daylilies were on the farm after the first year?

Which of the following pairs of functions are inverses of each other? o a. f(x)=x72+8 and 96-9 = 7/x+2) =8 o b. f(x)= 6(x - 2)+3 and g(x) - *#2-3 o c. $4) = 5(2)-3 and 90- 4*: 73 o d. f(x) = 6)-12 and 910 – +12

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.