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Mrs. morton has a special reward system for her class. when all her students behave well, she rewards them by putting 3 marbles into a marble jar. when the jar has 100 or more marbles, the students have a party. right now, the the jar has 24 marbles. how could mrs. morton reward the class in order for the students to have a party?

The u-drive rent-a-truck company plans to spend $13 million on 320 new vehicles. each commercial van will cost $25 comma 000, each small truck $50 comma 000, and each large truck  $80 comma 000. past experience shows that they need twice as many vans as small trucks. how many of each type of vehicle can they buy?

The areas of two similar triangles are 72dm2 and 50dm2. the sum of their perimeters is 226dm. what is the perimeter of each of these triangles?