Find the value of x.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

The key on a road map has a scale factor of 1.5 inches = 50 miles. the distance between santa fe and albuquerque measures 7.5 inches. the distance between santa fe and taos is 0.75 inches. what is the actual distance between the cities?

Arectangle has a perimeter of 20 cm. the length, x cm, of one side of this rectangle is uniformly distributed between 1 cm and 7 cm. find the probability that the length of the longer side of the rectangle is more than 6 cm long.