What is 2a - 5 i dont understand the way to do it

There are 15 plates and each plate is either 7 or 12 inches diameter. which systems of equations do you use to find the number of 7 inch plates, x and 12 inch plates, y

You were told that the amount of time lapsed between consecutive trades on the new york stock exchange followed a normal distribution with a mean of 15 seconds. you were also told that the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades to fall between 16 to 17 seconds was 13%. the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades would fall below 13 seconds was 7%. what is the probability that the time lapsed between two consecutive trades will be between 14 and 15 seconds?

The square root of 9x plus 7 plus the square rot of 2x equall to 7