In professional basketball, the career record of successful free throws is 9,787 out of 13,188. What is the percent of successful free throws to the total attempts and why.

Kelly is a salesperson at a shoe store, where she must sell a pre-set number of pairs of shoes each month. at the end of each work day the number of pairs of shoes that she has left to sell that month is given by the equation s=300-15x , where s is the number of pair of shoes kelly still needs to sell and x is the number of days she has worked that month. what is the meaning of the number 300 in this equation

Tim's phone service charges $26.39 plus an additional $0.21 for each text message sent per month. if tim's phone bill was $31.64, which equation could be used to find how many text messages, x, tim sent last month?

An electrician cuts a 136 foot long piece of cable. one piece is 16 feet less than 3 times the length of the other piece. find the length of each piece