An equation is shown:
2x + 7 = 3

Jay says the answer is 5
5 is not correct...What is the correct response, and what did Jay do incorrect to get 5.

The side of a square is 3 and 5/2 inches

Anut store normally sells cashews for? $4.00 per pound and peanuts for? $1.50 per pound. but at the end of the month the peanuts had not sold? well, so, in order to sell 40 pounds of? peanuts, the manager decided to mix the 40 pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mixture for $2.00 per pound. how many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts to ensure no change in the? profit?

Jessa bought a yoyo from a company that claims that, with each retraction, the string rolls up by 60% of the original length. she sets up a tape measure and throws the yoyo 3 times. her data are charted below. throw length of string (feet) 1 3 2 1.8 3 1.08 jessa wants to find the sum of the length of string after 10 throws. what is the sum of the lengths, rounded to the nearest hundredth?