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Cherie measures and records the lengths and sizes of the same style of a sandal found at a shoe store. which equation can be used to determine the approximate shoe size, s, for a foot length of x inches? s = x – 2 s = 2x – 10 s = x + 6 s = 2x + 4

Which formula finds the probability that a point on the grid below will be in the blue area? p(blue) = total number of squares number of blue squares number of blue squares p(blue) = total number of squares number of blue squares p(blue) = number of white squares

65 8 7 4 5 6 8 4 3 2 1 9 5 6 4 2 1 6 5 1 5 1 3 2 3 5 multiply the third number in the first row by the seventh number in the third row. add this result to the fifth number in the second row. add to this total ten times the fourth number in the third row. subtract the eighth number in the first row from the result.