Jodi is cutting out pieces of paper that measure 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches from a larger sheet of paper that has an area of 1,000 square inches. what is the greatest possible number of pieces that jodi can cut out of the larger sheet? (the area of each piece is 93.5 square inches by the way.)

How do the graphs of y = 1/x and y=5/x+6 compare?

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.

Find the amount of simple interest earned for depositing the given principle in an account if $2200 is invested at 5.5 % for 6 months