Matt and Alex are walking home from school one day and Alex says he knows a short cut. Matt says that the normal way they go is the shortest distance. Matt walks from A to B and then to C while Alex walks from A straight to C.

Who walked the shortest distance? Explain your answer.

Find the missing part. use an improper fraction for your answer.

Marco has $38.43 dollars in his checking account. his checking account is linked to his amazon music account so he can buy music. the songs he purchases cost $1.29. part 1: write an expression to describe the amount of money in his checking account in relationship to the number of songs he purchases. part 2: describe what the variable represents in this situation.

Tod does not have any cookies. david gives jeff 8 cookies. then he splits half of the cookies he has left with tod. david let’s c represent the number of cookies that he starts with. he finds the number of cookies that tod has is 1/2 the difference of c and 8. write an expression to represent the number of cookies that tod has.