A baker has a small and large bag of sugar for making cakes. The large bag contains 30 cups of sugar and is 2.5 times larger than the small bag. The small bag contains enough sugar to make 9 cakes and has 0.75 cups of sugar remaining. how many cakes can be made with a large bag of sugar?

You have $600,000 saved for retirement. your account earns 5.5% interest. how much, to the nearest dollar, will you be able to pull out each month, if you want to be able to take withdrawals for 20 years?

Mr. brettler is hanging up a 5-foot tall rectangular welcome sign in the gym. he has drawn a sketch on a coordinate grid. he has the lower vertices of the sign at (9, –3) and (–6, –3). where would the upper vertices be on the grid?

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends more than a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?