A sack of potatoes weighs 14 pounds 9 ounces. after Wendy makes potato salad for a picnic the sack weighs 9 pounds and 14 ounces what is the weight Wendy used for the potato salad

  4 lb 11 oz

Step-by-step explanation:

The difference in weights is ...

  14 lb 9 oz - (9 lb 14 oz) = (14 -9) lb (9 -14) oz = 5 lb (-5 oz)

There are 16 ounces in a pound, so this is ...

  5 lb (-5 oz) = 4 lb 11 oz

Wendy used 4 lb 11 oz of potatoes for the salad.

3.76%

step-by-step explanation:

let y equal to

the total fare and x is the mile of taxi ride. so the equation is

y = 0.55x + 1.75

since susie has

$10 to spend for a taxi cab, so he can have

10 = 0.55x +

1.75

x = 15 miles of

taxi ride

so the system of

inequality is

10 < 0.55x +

1.75

x > 2