Claudia works at a sweet shop making chocolate-dipped bananas. Sometimes she drops the chocolate- dipped bananas before she can get them to the freezer. Claudia earns 20 cents for every frozen banana that
she makes. She loses 5 cents for each frozen banana that she drops. Last Wednesday, Claudia dipped 48
frozen bananas, but not all of them made it to the freezer. She earned a total of $7.60. How many bananas
were dropped and how many made it to the freezer? Define your variables and write a system of
equations representing this situation. Solve the system by using either graphing, substitution, or
elimination.

What is the best estimate of the length of a football

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.

Our star pitcher, foster enlight, can throw a pitch so fast that it gets to the catcher’s mitt before it leaves foster’s fingers! if the team wins a game then the probability that foster was pitching is 0.8 but only if foster had at least one day’s rest since his last pitching assignment. if foster does not have a day off and the team still wins, the probability that foster was pitching drops by half of what it was on the previous day. if the team wins three games in succession from the toronto tachyons and foster pitched in game #2, what is the probability that he pitched in one or more of the other games? (assume that foster did not pitch on the day before the first game of this three game series.)