How do i do this? (solve for x) 3(2x + 4) =2x - 8

Jose predicted that he would sell 48 umbrellas. he actually sold 72 umbrellas. what are the values of a and b in the table below? round to the nearest tenth if necessary

John read the first 114 pages of a novel, which was 3 pages less than 1/3 of the novel. write an equation to determine the total number of pages (p)(p) in the novel.

Thompson and thompson is a steel bolts manufacturing company. their current steel bolts have a mean diameter of 127 millimeters, and a variance of 36. if a random sample of 35 steel bolts is selected, what is the probability that the sample mean would differ from the population mean by greater than 0.5 millimeters? round your answer to four decimal places.