At a restaurant you order dinner for $20. in addition to the cost of the meal you must pay a 5% sales tax and leave a 10% tip . what is the total cost?

Acontractor needs 54 square feet of brick to construct a rectangular walkway. the length of the walkway is 15 feet more than the width. write an equation that could be used to determine the dimensions of the walkway. solve this equation to find the length and width, in feet, of the walkway.

Mary used 1/7 of a spool of ribbon to complete 4 projects. she used the same amount of ribbon on each project. how much ribbon did she use on each project?

Four airplanes carrying a total of 400 passengersarrive at the detroit airport. the airplanes carry, respectively,50, 80, 110, and 160 passengers.a) one of the 400 passengers is selected uniformly at random.let x denote the number of passengers that were on theairplane carrying the randomly selected passenger. find var(x)for x as given in the problemb) one of the 4 airplane drivers is also selected uniformly atrandom. let y denote the number of passengers on the chosen driver’s airplane. find var(y) for y as given in the problem