What is the square root of 8.48

Mrs. morton has a special reward system for her class. when all her students behave well, she rewards them by putting 3 marbles into a marble jar. when the jar has 100 or more marbles, the students have a party. right now, the the jar has 24 marbles. how could mrs. morton reward the class in order for the students to have a party?

Solve for x and y: 217x + 131y = 913; 131x + 217y = 827

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?