Tom goes out to lunch with Kayla, Dana, and se’lah. Each person orders the lunch special. Tom offers to pay his and Kayla’s bill. How much will he have to pay? Write equation to solve this problem with your answer.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.