Harry is raising pumpkins to enter a contest to see who can grow the heaviest pumpkin. His best pumpkin weighs 22 pounds and is growing at a rate of 2.5 pounds per week. Ronald planted his pumpkins late. His best
pumpkin weighs 10 pounds but he expects it to grow 4 pounds per week. Assuming that their pumpkins grow
at these rates, how much will they weigh when they both weigh the same?

Isuck at math ; ^; m a student solved this problem and said the answer is 3 feet. chase had a roll of ribbon that contained 7 7/8  feet of ribbon. he cut off one piece that was 3 5/8  feet long and another piece that was 1 1/4  feet from the roll. how much ribbon was left on the roll? is the student's answer reasonable? yes, the answer is reasonable. no, the answer is not reasonable. it should be about 2 feet. no, the answer is not reasonable. it should be about 13 feet. no, the answer is not reasonable. it should be about 4 feet.

You have a square piece of cardboard that measures 14 inches on each side. to build a box, you cut congruent squares out of each corner of the cardboard. use the picture to find the area of the cardboard you were used to build the box

Collin did the work to see if 10 is a solution to the equation r/4=2.4