Kari and Julie are practicing for basketball tryouts. Kari makes 3 less than twice as many baskets as Julie. Write an expression with three terms for the number of baskets that Kari and Julie make in all. Explain how you found your expression.

The monthly texting plan of all star cell is $11 per month and $0.25 per text. the monthly texting plan of top line cell is $14 per month and $0.15 per text. a student wants to set up a system of equations to find the number of texts for which the total monthly cost of the two companies is the same. he uses the variables x and y. he lets y represent the total monthly cost. what will x represent? x = number of texts x = cost of the total number of texts x = total monthly cost x = cost of each text