4. Ariel loves to go to baseball games. This season she has already attended 23 New York Ducks games. If Ariel attended nine more weekend games than weekday games, how many weekday games did she attend.

She attended to 7 weekday games.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's denote our variables as:

Wd = number of weekday games that she attended.

We = number of weekend games that she attended.

We know that in total, she attended to 23 games, so we have:

Wd + We = 23.

"If  Ariel attended nine more weekend games than weekday games" can be written as:

We = Wd + 9.

Then we have the system of equations:

Wd + We = 23.

We = Wd + 9.

The first step would be to replace the second equation into the first one, as:

Wd + We = 23.

Wd + (Wd + 9) = 23

Now we can solve this for Wd.

2*Wd + 9 = 23

2*Wd = 23 - 9 = 14

Wd = 14/2 = 7

She attended to 7 weekday games.

And:

We + 7 = 23

We = 23 - 7 = 16

She attended at 16 weekend games.

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet

step-by-step explanation:

let's assume length of parallelogram is 'l'

width of parallelogram is 'w'

the perimeter of a parallelogram must be no less than 40 feet

so, we get

we are given

length of parallelogram is 6 feet

so,

l=6

we can plug it

now, we can solve for w

subtract both sides by 12

divide both sides by 2

and we get

so,

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet