Mr. russell and ms. nicholson are teaching their classes how to write in cursive. mr. russell has already taught his class 2 letters. the students in ms. nicholson's class, who started the unit later, currently know how to write 4 letters. mr. russell plans to teach his class 3 new letters per week, and ms. nicholson intends to cover 2 new letters per week. eventually, the students in both classes will know how to write the same number of letters. how long will that take?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?