A wind-blown fire with a speed of 18 ft/s is moving toward a highway at an angle of 66° with the highway. To the nearest tenth, what is the component of the velocity toward the highway?

Afarmer sells 9.5 kilograms of apples and pears at the farmer's market. 4/5 of the weight is the apples and the rest is the pears. how many kilograms of pears did she sell at the farmers market

Thales was an ancient philosopher familiar with similar triangles. one story about him says that he found the height of a pyramid by measuring its shadow and his own shadow at the same time. if the person is 5-ft tall, what is the height of the pyramid in the drawing?

Some boys and girls were asked if they had a pet. one third of the group were boys. there were 20 boys. 20% of the girls had a pet. boys with a pet : girls with a pet = 1 : 5 i need to know how many girls there are.