Suppose that among the 5000 students at a high school, 1200 are taking an online class and 1700 prefer watching basketball to watching football. Taking an online class and preferring basketball are independent. How many students are taking an online course and prefer basketball to football?

Twenty-five percent of the customers entering a grocery store between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. use an express checkout. consider five randomly selected customers, and let x denote the number among the five who use the express checkout.

Jack did 3/5 of all problems on his weekend homework before sunday. on sunday he solved 1/3 of what was left and the last 4 problems. how many problems were assigned for the weekend?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?