How to make a math question out of 14-7

Jamie went to home depot.she bought 25 bags of soil that cost $9 per bag.she bought 15 pots at $8 each, and she bought 23 bags of pebbles at $15 each.she used a coupon that gave her $5 off for every 100 dollars she spent. how much did jamie pay at the end?

Is trapezoid abdc the result of a dilation of trapezoid mnpq by a scale factor of ? why or why not? yes, because ab and cd are each the lengths mn and qp. yes, because sides ab and cd are parallel to sides mn and qp. no, because ab is the length mn but cd is the length qp. no, because sides ab and cd have different slopes from sides mn and qp.

Use sigma notation to represent the following series for 9 terms.