*I thought of a number, added 18, then multiplied the result by 8. I got 16. What was my number?

Ben wants to play a carnival game that costs $2. in his pocket he has 5 red tickets worth 35 cents each, and 15 blue tickets worth 10 cents each. which of the following systems of inequalities correctly represents the constraints on the variables in this problem? let represent the red tickets and b represent the blue tickets.

Jada has a meal in a restaurant she adds up the prices listed on the menu for everything they ordered and gets a subtotal of $42.00. after tax the total is 45.99. what percentage of the subtotal is the total?

Which problem would you use the following proportion to solve for? 24/x=40/100 a. what is 40% of 24? b. what percent is 24 of 40? c. twenty-four is 40% of what number? d. forty percent of 24 is what number?