Liam is reading a 254 page book for school. He can read 40 pages in one hour. The equation
for the number of pages he has left to read is
y% 254 - 40x, where x is the number of hours
he reads. What does the -40 represent in the
equation?

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Becca wants to mix fruit juice and soda to make a punch. she can buy fruit juice for $3 a gallon and soda for $4 a gallon. if she wants to make 28 gallons of punch at a cost of $3.25 a gallon, how many gallons of fruit juice and how many gallons of soda should she buy?

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