20 POINTS!! NEED HELP FOR A TEST! A food pantry is making packages. Each package weighs 64 pounds.

Here are two situations. For each situation, write an equation to represent the situation.

A. Each package contains 4 boxes. Each box contains 7-pound bag of beans and a bag of rice. The bags of rice are all identical.

B. Each package contains 4 identical bags of rice and a 7-pound bag of beans.

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation