Provide an appropriate response.How can you use a proportion to solve a percent word problem? Explain in your own words.
What will be an ideal response?
Identify the values and the unknown representing the amount, the whole, and the percent. Substitute the values and the unknown into the percent proportion: 
= 
. Solve the proportion to find the unknown value.
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Find an equation for the line tangent to the curve at the point defined by the given value of t.x = 5 sin t, y = 5 cos t, t = 
A. y = x - 5
B. y = - x + 5
C. y = 5
x + 1
D. y = 5x + 5
Determine convergence or divergence of the series.
A. Diverges B. Converges
Solve the problem.Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region in the first quadrant bounded by the coordinate axes, the curve y = e-3x, and the line x = 6 about the y-axis.
A. 
?(1 - 18 e-18)
B. 
?(1 - 19 e-18)
C. - 
?(1 + 19 e-18)
D. 
?(1 - 17 e-18)
Solve the problem.The logistic growth model 
represents the population of a bacterium in a culture tube after t hours. What was the initial amount of bacteria in the population?
A. 34 B. 40 C. 36 D. 35