Laura inherited $10,000. Making a sound financial decision, she decided to invest the money at her local bank. She had two options:
(1) earning simple interest at 6% or
(2) earning compound interest at 5.5%.
Which investment option will yield more return over a 10 year period?

Jessica and martha each have a bag of cookies with unequal quantities. they have 30 cookies total between the two of them. each of them ate 6 cookies from their bag. the product of the number of cookies left in each bag is not more than 80. how many more cookies will jessica have martha? if x represents the number of cookies jessica started with, complete the statements below.the inequality that describes the relationship between the number of cookies each one of them has is x^2 - x +224 > = 0.jessica has at least cookies more than martha.

The fence around a quadrilateral-shaped pasture is 3a^2+15a+9 long. three sides of the fence have the following lengths: 5a, 10a-2, a^2-7. what is the length of the fourth side of the fence?

60 2(x + 2) in the diagram, gef and hef are congruent. what is the value of x?