What is the BEST deal? 1. 60 feet of rope for $8.00 or 200 feet of rope for $30.00 2. 75 pencils for $5.75 or 100 pencils for $7.50 3. 100 thumb tacks for $3.00 or 500 thumb tacks for $16.00 4. 25,000 ball bearings for $275.00 or 60,000 ball bearings for $680.00 5. 60 apples for $43.00 or 90 apples for $63.00

Two blends of tea are mixed to make a blend that will be sold at the fair. black tea sells for $2.20 per pound and orange pekoe tea sells for $3.00 per pound. how much of each should be used to obtain a 4lb blend selling for $2.50 per pound?

Aquantity with an initial value of 3900 decays exponentially at a rate of 35% every hour. what is the value of the quantity after 0.5 days, to the nearest hundredth?

Recall that the owner of a local health food store recently started a new ad campaign to attract more business and wants to know if average daily sales have increased. historically average daily sales were approximately $2,700. the upper bound of the 95% range of likely sample means for this one-sided test is approximately $2,843.44. if the owner took a random sample of forty-five days and found that daily average sales were now $2,984, what can she conclude at the 95% confidence level?