Since Maria is going to put a trim around a triangle-shaped banner with 22 inches long per side, this means that for the banner, it has a total length of 66 inches. 66 inches would be equal to 5.5 foot. This means that the total length of the trim from the start is 7 foot. Hope this helps.
The tangent line to the curve has slope equal to
. Use implicit differentiation to find this derivative.


The given line in slope-intercept form is

and has slope -9/2. Any line parallel to this one has the same slope. The tangent to the hyperbola has this slope at points (<em>x</em>, <em>y</em>) such that

Find the points on the hyperbola where this condition is met.

Then use the point-slop formula to build the equations of these tangents:

Answer:
We can go step by step for this problem by listing out how many blocks for each stack.
Stack 1: 4
Stack 2: 4+9=13
Stack 3: 13+4=17
Now we can sum up the number of blocks in each stack to get 4+13+17=34. The answer is 34.