Do the phrases 6 less a number y and 6 less than a number y mean the same thing? Explain. A. No, they do not both mean the same thing. 6 less a number y can be represented by the expression 6 - y. 6 less than a number y can be represented by the expression y - 6. B. Yes, they both mean the same thing. They can also both be represented by the expression y - 6.

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Heather is riding a quadratic function that represents a parabola that touches but does not cross the x-axis at x=-6

What is the ordered pair that represents the linear inequality y< 6x-4