How to write a similarity statement

An episode of a television show is 60 minutes long when it originally airs with commercials. on a dvd without commercials, the episode is only 417 minutes long. how many1-minute commercials did the episode include when it originally aired? write and solve an equation to justify your answer.

14 pointslet x be the seats in the small van and y the seats in the large van. how many seats does the large van have? a company uses two vans to transport worker from a free parking lot to the workplace between 7: 00 and 9: 00a.m. one van has 9 more seats than the other. the smaller van makes two trips every morning while the larger one makes only one trip. the two vans can transport 69 people, maximum.how many seats does the larger van have?

The distributive property allows you to say that 3(x − 1) = 3x −