What are the values of x and y?

What is the value of x in the equation 6(x + 1) – 5x = 8 + 2(x – 1)?

Over the course of the school year, you keep track of how much snow falls on a given day and whether it was a snow day. your data indicates that of twenty-one days with less than three inches of snow, five were snow days, while of the eight days with more than three inches of snow, six were snow days. if all you know about a day is that it is snowing, what is the probability that it will be a snow day?

Julia bought 7 hats a week later half of all her hats were destroyed in a fire. there are now only 12 hats left with how many did she start