An animal shelter has a combination of cats and dogs. The number of dogs is two less than twice the number of cats. There are a total of 25 animals currently in the shelter. Which system of equations represents x, the number of cats and y, the number of dogs in the shelter?

You buy five cds at a sale for $5.95 each. write an expression for the total cost of the cds.then use the distributive property and mental math to evaluate the expression.

Over the course of the school year, you keep track of how much snow falls on a given day and whether it was a snow day. your data indicates that of twenty-one days with less than three inches of snow, five were snow days, while of the eight days with more than three inches of snow, six were snow days. if all you know about a day is that it is snowing, what is the probability that it will be a snow day?

Melanie is buying a bathing suit that costs 39.99. she is given a discount at the cash register of $6.00 when she scratched 15% off on a game piece for a store promotion. what will the sale price of melanie’s bathing suit be?