[Will award brainliest if correct!] It takes a painter and his friend 8 hours to paint a room. if the painter was working alone, it would take him 12 hours less than if his friend was working alone. How long does it take the painter to paint the room by himself?

Acarnival sold tickets for $1.50 for adults and $1.00 for students. there were 54 tickets sold for a total of $70.50. write a system of equations to represent the number of adult tickets,x, and the number of student tickets,y. find the solution and explain what it means. i'll you if you me

What is the prime factorization of 230

Ariana starts with 100 milligrams of a radioactive substance. the amount of the substance decreases by 20% each week for a number of weeks, w. the expression 100(1−0.2)w finds the amount of radioactive substance remaining after w weeks. which statement about this expression is true? a) it is the difference between the initial amount and the percent decrease. b) it is the difference between the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks. c) it is the initial amount raised to the decay factor after w weeks. d) it is the product of the initial amount and the decay factor after w weeks.