How am i supposed to know why the variable(x in this case) goes on the top or bottom of the fraction? like from this question. i am confused.
because of slumping sales, a small company had to lay off some of its employees. the ratio of total employees to employees laid off is 5 to 1. find the total number of employees if 22 employees were laid off? how would i know?

Someone answer this asap rn for ! a discount store’s prices are 25% lower than department store prices. the function c(x) = 0.75x can be used to determine the cost c, in dollars, of an item, where x is the department store price, in dollars. if the item has not sold in one month, the discount store takes an additional 20% off the discounted price and an additional $5 off the total purchase. the function d(y) = 0.80y - 5 can be used to find d, the cost, in dollars, of an item that has not been sold for a month, where y is the discount store price, in dollars. create a function d(c(x)) that represents the final price of an item when a costumer buys an item that has been in the discount store for a month. d(c(x)) =

Max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.

You have 12 balloons to blow up for your birthday party. you blow up 1/3, and your friend blows up 5 of them. what fraction of the baloons still need blowing up