5.23 minus 2.1 write a story

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

Tatiana reads 40 pages of her book every night for x number of nights. write an expression that shows the number of pages she has read

Examine this system of equations. what integer should the second equation be multiplied by so that when the two equations are added together, the x term is eliminated? 3/4x+1/7y=6 1/8x-3/5y=16