Marco is five years less then twice hi sister Leah's age. Their mother is 14 years older than Marco and Leah's combined ages. If their mother is 48 years old, how old is Marco?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.