At Breakfast Break, 2 eggs and 1 sausage patty cost $2.23 and 3 eggs with 2 sausage patties cost $3.76. Assuming that these amounts only pay for the eggs and sausage, how much does one sausage patty cost?

Students are getting signatures for a petition to increase sports activities at the community center. the number of signatures they get each day is 3 times as many as the day before. the expression 3^6 represents the number of signatures they got on the sixth day. how many signatures did they get on the first day?