Sandra buys 70 pencils with fuzzy tops. she gives 4 to each of her 15 classmates. The expression for the number of pencils she has left is 70 - (4x15) In this expression, what does 70 represent?

Abby is preparing fruit punch for her party. she starts with a bowl filled with liquid that has 1/2 fruit juice and 1/2 sprite, but she decides it's too fruity. so she pours out 1/4 of the liquid, and then fills the bowl up again with sprite. what fraction of the punch is now sprite?

Nick has box brads. he uses 4 brads for the first project. nick let’s b represent the original number of brads and finds that for the second project, the number of brads he uses is 8 more than half the difference of b and 4. write an expression to represent the number of brads he uses for the second project.

Worth 15 points handsome jack is buying a pony made of diamonds. the price of the pony is p dollars, and jack also has to pay a 25% diamond pony tax. which of the following expressions could represent how much jack pays in total for the pony? a= p = 1/4 b= p+0.25p c=(p + 1/4)p d=5/4p 0.25p choose 2 answers