Emma went out shopping with her father and bought a dress that cost $40.00. In class, she learned to find the sales tax by multiplying by .08 (the sales tax in her state is 8%). Emma
found the tax, and then added the tax to the original amount. Emma's mother suggested that
she should just multiply the cost of the dress by 1.08 and that this method would give her the
final answer with the tax included. Emma was confused. Who is right? Work it out both ways
and explain your thinking.

In new york city at the spring equinox there are 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight. the longest and shortest days of the year very by two hours and 53 minutes from the equinox in this year the equinox falls on march 21 in this task you use trigonometric function to model the hours of daylight hours on certain days of the year in new york city a.what is the independent and dependent variables? b.find the amplitude and the period of the function. c.create a trigonometric function that describes the hours of sunlight for each day of the year. d. graph the function you build in part c. e. use the function you build in part c to find out how many fewer daylight hours february 10 will have than march 21. you may look at the calendar.

Acircus act has 3 times as many elephants as acrobats. jorge noticed that all together there were 56 legs in the circus ring. how many elephants were in the show?

Aramp rises 4 feet over a distance of 10 feet. what is the length of the ramp?