Which shows the best use of the associative and commutative to make simplifying 3/4-5+9-2/4+2 easier

What is the value of x in the figure below? if necessary, round your answer to the nearest tenth of a unit. 12 d 4 b оа. 3.1 ов. 6.9 ос. 4 od. 12

Apsychology student wishes to investigate differences in political opinions between business majors and political science majors at her college. she randomly selects 100 students from the 260 business majors and 100 students from the 180 political science majors. does this sampling plan result in a simple random sample? why or why not? no, because each group of 200 students in the sample does not have the same chance of being selected. yes, because each group of 200 students in the sample has the same chance of being selected. no, because each individual student does not have an equal chance of being selected. yes, because each individual student has the same chance of being selected.

Two friends are reading books. jimmy reads a book with 21,356 words. his friend bob reads a book with one-and-a-half times as many words. which expression represents the number of words bob reads?