Today the school's math club has $75 in its account. Yesterday the club members spent $27.75 on fees to enter a competition. The equation 75=a-27.7575=a−27.75 represents this situation. What does the variable : a represent in this situation?

Solve the problem. a student earned grades of c, a, b, and a in four different courses. those courses had these corresponding numbers of credit hours: 4, 5, 1, and 5. the grading system assigns quality points to letter grades as follows: a = 4, b = 3, c = 2, d = 1, and f = 0. compute the grade point average (gpa) and round the result to two decimal places. 3.40 3.50 8.75 2.18