Joshua paints with watercolors on a sheet of paper 28 inches wide by 16 inches high. He then places this sheet on a mat so that a uniformly wide strip of the mat shows all around the picture. The perimeter of the mat is 112 inches. How wide is the strip of the mat showing around the picture?
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(a) 2 inches
(b) 8 inches
(d) 6 inches
(e) 4 inches
(c) 3 inches
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The sales tax 
, in dollars, I have to pay when I buy 
dollars worth of merchandise is given by
.
?
If I decide to buy $44 more in merchandise, how much additional sales tax will I have to pay?
A. $3.96
B. $4.76
C. $0.72
D. $0.09
Multiply.(x - 5)(x2 + 5x + 3)
A. x3 - 10x2 - 22x - 15 B. x3 - 22x - 15 C. x3 + 10x2 + 22x + 15 D. x3 + 28x + 15
Provide an appropriate response.A person purchasing a new car has several options: 6 interior color choices, 5 exterior color choices, 2 choices of radios, and 5 choices of body styles. How many different cars are possible if one choice is made for each option?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Find a rectangular equation for the plane curve defined by the parametric equations.x = 
, y = 
, for t in (4, ?)
A. y = 1 - 4x2, x in (0, ?)
B. y = 
, x in (0, ?)
C. y = 1 + 4x2, x in (0, ?)
D. y = 4 + x2, x in (0, ?)