Can you subtract variables with different exponents

Question 10jur's car can travel 340 miles on 12 gallons. jack's car can travel 390 miles on16 gallons. which person has the best mileage (miles per gallon) and what istheir mileage?

Florence price's brownies and more sells all types of cookies and pastries. on tuesdays, they markdown all brownies 75% to a sale of $1.50 a dozen. find the selling price and the markdown of a dozen brownies.

You got a job selling magazines door-to-door. you are paid $100 per day plus $1.50 for each magazine you sell. which recursive formula models this situation?