Sarah is starting a new job.
the first payment is $300 and every book sold she gets $5 per book. the second payment is $450 and $2 per book sold. how many books will it take for both payments to be pay the same amount?

In the geometric progression –3, 12, −48… what term is 3,072?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Solve each quadratic equation by factoring and using the zero product property. x^2 - 8x + 30 = 3x