The base of a pyramid is a rectangle with a width of 15.5 cm and a length of 12 cm. What is the height, in centimeters, of the pyramid if its volume is 196.5, to the nearest hundredth.

Neveah and clint are baking muffins for the bake sale. they need to bake 30 muffins for their display case. clint has baked 4 so far, and neveah has baked 7. how many muffins (m) do they have left to bake? show your work!

Dexter read 11 science fiction books and 5 history books. lena read 9 science fiction books and 4 history books. compare the students’ ratios of science fiction books to history books. 1. determine the ratios’ form:    science fiction books to history books 2. write the ratios as fractions:    dexter: 115; lena: 94 3. rewrite with a common denominator. 4. compare. 5. answer the question. determine which shows the correct comparison of the ratios for this problem.

Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297