a male punky fish has 9 stripes and a female punky fish has 8 stripes.
i count 86 stripes on the fish in my tank.
what is the ratio of
the ratio of male fish to female fish?

Asmall foreign car gete 42 miles per gallon and user 35 gallons on a trip. gasoline costs $1.05 per gallon. what was the cost of gasoline per mile driver?

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?

Atotal of 766 tickets were sold for the school play. they were either adult tickets or student tickets. there were 66 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. how many adult tickets were sold?