The original price of an item plus a sales tax of 8.5 % write an expression? i need asap

Graph red beads cost $1 an ounce and gold beads cost $3 an ounce. juanita wants to purchase a 12-ounce mixture of red and gold beads that she can sell for $2 an ounce. the solution of the system shows the number of beads needed for juanita to break even. x + y = 12, x + 3y = 24 how many ounces of red beads will juanita buy to break even? how many ounces of gold beads will she buy?

Mickey needs to cut pieces of ribbon that are each 1 meter long tie onto balloons. if he has 8 pieces of ribbon that are each 1 dekameter long. how many 1 meter pieces of ribbon can he cut

The human resources manager at a company records the length, in hours, of one shift at work, x. he creates the probability distribution below. what is the probability that a worker chosen at random works at least 8 hours? 0.62 0.78 0.84 0.96