What is the decimal form of 8 and 39/40

Officer brimberry wrote 24 tickets for traffic violations last week, but only 9 tickets this week. what is the percent decrease? give your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Jordan rides his bike 6 7/15 miles every day to deliver newspapers and to go to and from school. if his ride to and from school is 4 3/10 miles, how many miles is the trip to deliver newspapers? 1 1/3 1 1/6 2 1/6 2 4/5

Atextile fiber manufacturer is investigating a new drapery yarn, which the company claims has a mean thread elongation of 12 kilograms with a standard deviation of 0.5 kilograms. the company wishes to test the hypothesis upper h subscript 0 baseline colon mu equals 12 against upper h subscript 1 baseline colon mu less-than 12 using a random sample of n equals 4 specimens. calculate the p-value if the observed statistic is x overbar equals 11.8. round your final answer to five decimal places (e.g. 98.76543).