Marco and drew stacked boxes on a shelf. marco lifted 9 boxes and drew lifted 14 boxes. the boxes that drew lifted each weighed 8 lb less than the boxes marco lifted.

let m represent the weight of the boxes that marco lifted.

which expression represents the total number of pounds drew lifted?

112m

9(m+8)9(m+8)

m−8m−8

14(m−8)

It is saturday morning and jeremy has discovered he has a leak coming from the water heater in his attic. since plumbers charge extra to come out on the weekends, jeremy is planning to use buckets to catch the dripping water. he places a bucket under the drip and steps outside to walk the dog. in half an hour the bucket is 1/5 of the way full. what is the rate at which the water is leaking per hour?