Ok so a compass, is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. Compasses can be used for drafting, navigation and graphing.
They are essentially asking us to solve:

Solving this equation for x tells us that it will take around 80.1 years for the materials in the vault to reduce to 357 pounds.
Volume of a rectangular prism = l × w × h.
In this case,
V = 270 cubic feet
l = 15 feet
w = 4 ft
h = ?
Plug our values into the volume formula.
270 cubic feet = 15 feet × 4 feet × h.
Simplify the right side
270 = 60 × h.
Divide each side by 60.
4.5 = h
The height is 4.5 feet.
Answer:
approx. 3 hours
Step-by-step explanation:
14 newspapers in 20 minutes means he can deliver 42 newspapers an hour.
60/42 = 1.4285 newspapers per minute
131 x 1.4285 = 187.1335 minutes = 3.1188 hours