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You eat 8 strawberries and your friend eats 12 strawberries from a bowl. there are 20 strawberries left. which equation and solution give the original number of strawberries?

Acompany wants to reduce the dimensions of its logo by one fourth to use on business cards. if the area of the original logo is 4 square inches, what is the area of the logo that will be used on the business cards?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?