Twice a number a is less than 3

What is the value of x in the equation 2(x-4) = 4(2x + 1)?

Janie has $3. she earns $1.20 for each chore she does and can do fractions of chores. she wants to earn enough money to buy a cd for $13.50. write an inequality to determine the number of chores, c, janie could do to have enough money to buy the cd.

An arithmetic series a consists of consecutive integers that are multiples of 4 what is the sum of the first 9 terms of this sequence if the first term is 0