A jewelry supply shop sells silver chains for an original price of c dollars each. During the holiday season, the chains are marked down 15%.

What is the value of x in the equation 6(x + 1) – 5x = 8 + 2(x – 1)?

Sienna planned a trapezoid-shaped garden, as shown in the drawing below. she decides to change the length of the top of the trapezoid-shaped garden from 32 ft to 24 ft. which expression finds the change in the scale factor?

You are remodeling your kitchen. you’ve contacted two tiling companies who gladly told you how long it took their workers to tile of a similar size jim completed half the floor in 8 hours. pete completed half of the other floor in 7 hours. if pete can lay 20 more tiles per hour than jim, at what rate can jim lay tiles