[i absolutely don't get this, sterling silver is an alloy of 92.5% sliver and 7.5% copper by weight. you have 15 ounces of 800 grade silver which is 80% silver and 20% copper. how much pure silver should you add to the 800 grade to make sterling silver?

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?

Three students, javier, sam, and corrine, participated in a fundraiser where people donated a certain amount of money per lap that the student ran. each student also had some initial donations that were collected before the run. the equations that represent each student's total donation, y, based on the number of laps ran, x, is shown below. match each equation with the correct rate of change for that student.

If the perimeter of the square equals the perimeter of the regular pentagon. each side of a pentagon is 16cm long. how long is each side of the square?