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Mariah is randomly choosing three books to read from the following: 5 mysteries, 7 biographies, and 8 science fiction novels. which of these statements are true? check all that apply. there are 20c3 possible ways to choose three books to read. there are 5c3 possible ways to choose three mysteries to read. there are 15c3 possible ways to choose three books that are not all mysteries. the probability that mariah will choose 3 mysteries can be expressed as . the probability that mariah will not choose all mysteries can be expressed as 1 −

At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.20 and adult admission is $9.70. on sunday three time as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $788.90. how many child tickets were sold that day?

I'm super confused with this one, show work so that i can figure out what i did wrong. find the length of cu. the triangles are similar.