Matthew and Anthony each have a video game collection. The number of video games in Matthew’s collection can be represented by x. The number of video games in Anthony’s collection is 5 times the number in Matthew’s collection. The total number of video games in both collections is 72. What is x, the number of video games in Matthew’s collection?

Fiona and her friends are playing a game by guessing where a coin will land when it is randomly dropped inside the square shown below. fiona guesses that the coin is likely to land in the blue area. which explains whether or not fiona is correct and why?

The host of a game show is holding a bag with chips to see what prizes the contestants will play for. five (5) of the chips say “new car” ten (10) of the chips say “new tv” three (3) of the chips say “trip to france” contestant named “patty” reaches into the bag. a. what is the probability of choosing a tv chip? b. what is the probability of choosing a car chip next without replacing the 1st chip? c. are these dependent or independent events?

Andy wants to find the distance d across a river. he located points as shown in the figure, then use similar triangles to find that d = 223.5 feet. how can you tell without calculating that he must be wrong? tell what you think he did wrong and correct his error. round your answer to the nearest tenth if necessary. andy must have used the wrong . the distance d is actually feet.