An animal shelter spends $2.50 per day to care for each cat and $3.00 per day to care for each dog. Parker noticed that the shelter spent $46.50 caring for cats and dogs on Thursday. Parker found a record showing that there were a total of 18 cats and dogs on Thursday. How many cats were at the shelter on Thursday?

Five dinosaurs go for a walk and come across some lovely chicken wings. their names are rexy, bronto, steggy, paly, and terry. there are exactly 5 dozen wings(equal enough for each dino to have a dozen right? ); however, terry is on a diet and he only eats 6 wings. if paly eats 2 more than terry, steggy eats 4 more than paly, and bronto and rexy eat the same amount because they are really hungry from not eating all day, how many chicken wings did each dino eat?

Acompany produces packets of soap powder labeled “giant size 32 ounces.” the actual weight of soap powder in such a box has a normal distribution with a mean of 33 oz and a standard deviation of 0.7 oz. to avoid having dissatisfied customers, the company says a box of soap is considered underweight if it weighs less than 32 oz. to avoid losing money, it labels the top 5% (the heaviest 5%) overweight. how heavy does a box have to be for it to be labeled overweight?

What is the value of n in the equation -1/2(2n+4)+6=-9+4(2n+1)