A piece of wood 8 feet long is cut into two pieces, one shorter than the other. Let L denote the length of the longer piece. Express the length of the shorter piece of wood in terms of L.


B) 8 - L

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Find the length of the indicated unknown side in the right triangle. Round to two decimal places, if necessary.Find side c.

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Find the indicated term of the sequence.The twentieth term of the arithmetic sequence 11, 7, 3, ...

A. -65 B. 87 C. 91 D. -69

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Multiply and simplify. ? 

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