Which is a better deal, 5 tickets for $12.50 or 8 tickets for $20.16?

Write an explicit formula that represents the sequence defined by the following recursive formula:

In the equations, a and b represent the price per night for a room in hotel a and hotel b, respectively, w weeks after september 1 last autumn. what was the price per night in hotel a when it was equal to the price per night in hotel b? a = 240 − 20w b = 320 − 30w

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.