Laura earns 2.90 dollars more per hour than her friend jess, write an equation to show how much jess earns per hour, use j to represent her hourly rate, how much does jess earns if she works 20 hours

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Atotal of 766 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adult tickets or student tickets. there were 66 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. how many adult tickets were sold?

Solve the problem by making up an equation. a man could arrive on time for an appointment if he drove the car at 40 mph; however, since he left the house 15 minutes late, he drove the car at 50 mph and arrive 3 minutes early for the appointment. how far from his house was his appointment?