Amachine cuts a strip of carpet into two pieces. the length of the smaller piece is 5 meters greater than   the length of the larger piece. if the length of the smaller piece is 12 meters, the length of the bigger piece is meters and the total length of the carpet is meters.

Ily begins solving the equation 4(x – 1) – x = 3(x + 5) – 11. her work is shown below. 4(x – 1) – x = 3(x + 5) – 11 4x – 4 – x = 3x + 15 – 11 3x – 4 = 3x + 4 how can her partial solution be interpreted?

Tom wants to order tickets online so that he and three of his friends can go to a water park the cost of the tickets is 16.00 per person there is also a 2.50 one-time service fee for ordering tickets online write an expression in term of n that represents the cost for n ordering tickets online

Solve the following simultaneous equation by using an algebraic method (either substitution or elimination) 2x + 3y=-4 4x-y=11