Two rectangular plots of land are equal in area. The length of the first plot is one and a half times its width. The length of the second plot is 7 metres less than three times its width. (a) Denoting the width of the first plot by * metres and the width of the second plot by y metres, derive a relation between x and y (b) If y - x + 1, calculate the values of x and y.

Fanny mendelssohn manages all the magazines and paperback books at a local grocery store. she prices many paperbacks to sell at $7.99. the cost to the store is $5.29. what is the markup rate on a paperback book, based on its cost?

Tom is the deli manager at a grocery store. he needs to schedule employee to staff the deli department for no more that 260 person-hours per week. tom has one part-time employee who works 20 person-hours per week. each full-time employee works 40 person-hours per week. write and inequality to determine n, the number of full-time employees tom may schedule, so that his employees work on more than 260 person-hours per week. graph the solution set to this inequality.

Long division setup showing an incomplete calculation. 12 is in the divisor, 6839 is in the dividend, and 5 hundreds and 6 tens is written in the quotient. 6000 is subtracted from 6839 to give 839. an unknown value represented by a box is being subtracted from 839. what number should be placed in the box to complete the division calculation?