13) mary sold half of her comic books and
then bought seventeen more. she now has
30. with how many did she begin?

Write the product as a trinomial. (x + 2)(x + 3) x2 + 5x + 6 x2 + 6x + 6 x2 + 6x + 5 x2 + 5

An episode of a television show is 60 minutes long when it originally airs with commercials. on a dvd without commercials, the episode is only 417 minutes long. how many1-minute commercials did the episode include when it originally aired? write and solve an equation to justify your answer.

Subscriptions to a popular fashion magazine have gone down by a consistent percentage each year and can be modeled by the function y = 42,000(0.96)t. what does the value 42,000 represent in the function?