8. Riverside has 270 seventh grade students, and its ratio of boys to girls is 5:4. Salem has
180 seventh grade students, and its ratio of boys to girls is 4:5. The two towns hold a carnival, and all
seventh grade students from both towns attend. How many seventh grade students at the carnival are
girls?
[A] 220
[B] 225
[C] 230
[D] 100

Create a real-life situation and create a system and show how it might be modeled algebraically with a system of equations (or inequalities) show all work include a few sentences explaining the situation, your variables of choice and what each represents, and how you would set it up and solve it algebraically. !

Mr. walker gave his class the function f(x) = (x + 3)(x + 5). four students made a claim about the function. each student’s claim is below. jeremiah: the y-intercept is at (15, 0). lindsay: the x-intercepts are at (–3, 0) and (5, 0). stephen: the vertex is at (–4, –1). alexis: the midpoint between the x-intercepts is at (4, 0). which student’s claim about the function is correct?

Yesterday, george drank 1 small bottle and 2 large bottles, for a total of 1,372 grams. the day before , he drank 1 small bottle and 1 large bottle, for the total of 858 grams. how many grams does each bottle hold?