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Ricky takes out a $31,800 student loan to pay his expenses while he is in college. after graduation, he will begin making payments of $190.66 per month for the next 30 years to pay off the loan. how much more will ricky end up paying for the loan than the original value of $31,800? ricky will end up paying $ more than he borrowed to pay off the loan.

Sophia wrote an equation to represent the revenue of a movie theater for one day. she let x represent the number of child tickets sold and y represents the nunver of adult tickets sold. if a child ticket cost $4, an adult ticket cost $6, and the total revenue for the daybwas $420, which equation could sophia use to represent the number of chikd and adult tickets that were sold?

Arational number that is equivalent to -20/4?