David wants to buy a new tablet computer. He looks at a sales ad and sees that a computer store is selling a tablet computer for $499 which is 1/3 off the regular price. Part A:
Write an equation that represents the situation. Let x = the original cost of the tablet.

Part B:
Find the original cost of the tablet computer.

Students buying lunch at rockwell elementary school yesterday chose either burritos or pizza. 185 students chose burritos and 252 chose pizza. 1. estimate the number of students who brought lunch by rounding each number to the nearest hundred. 2. estimate how many students bought lunch by rounding each number to the nearest ten. 3. find the total number of students who brought lunch. which of your estimates is closer to the actual total? explain. 4. draw a figure on a sheet of paper. estimate how many pennies will fit inside the figure. check your prediction using pennies.

Giuseppi's pizza had orders for $931.00 of pizzas. the prices were $21 for a large pizza, 514 for a medium pizza, and $7 for a small pizza. the number of large pizzas was two less than four times the number of medium pizzas. thenumber of small pizzas was three more than three times the number of medium pizzas. how many of each size of pizza were ordered?

Follow these steps using the algebra tiles to solve the equation −5x + (−2) = −2x + 4. 1. add 5 positive x-tiles to both sides and create zero pairs. 2. add 4 negative unit tiles to both sides and create zero pairs. 3. divide the unit tiles evenly among the x-tiles. x =