For passing Grade 8, you received a $150 gift card. You want to purchase a skateboard for $78.50 and a helmet for $32.00. a) Sales tax is 13%. What is the total sales tax? b) How much money will you have left on your gift card after you buy these items? *

The late fee for library books is $2.00 plus 15¢ each day for a book that is late. if maria’s fee for a late book was $3.20, write and solve a linear equation to find how many days late the book was.

Determine whether the points (–3,–6) and (2,–8) are in the solution set of the system of inequalities below. x ? –3 y < 5? 3x + 2 a. the point (–3,–6) is not in the solution set, and the point (2,–8) is in the solution set. b. neither of the points is in the solution set. c. the point (–3,–6) is in the solution set, and the point (2,–8) is not in the solution set. d. both points are in the solution set.

At the olympic games, many events have several rounds of competition. one of these events is the men's 100-meter backstroke. the upper dot plot shows the times (in seconds) of the top 8 finishers in the final round of the 2012 olympics. the lower dot plot shows the times of the same 8 swimmers, but in the semifinal round. which pieces of information can be gathered from these dot plots? (remember that lower swim times are faster.) choose all answers that apply: a: the swimmers had faster times on average in the final round. b: the times in the final round vary noticeably more than the times in the semifinal round. c: none of the above.