What is the value of 3^2? (3^2 means 3 raised to the second power.)

Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?

Sarah took the advertising department from her company on a round trip to meet with a potential client. including sarah a total of 11 people took the trip. she was able to purchase coach tickets for $280 and first class tickets for $1280. she used her total budget for airfare for the trip, which was $6080. how many first class tickets did she buy? how many coach tickets did she buy?

Every weekday, mr. jones bikes from his home to his job. sometimes he rides along two roads, the long route that is shown by the solid lines. other times, he takes the shortcut shown by the dashed line. how many fewer kilometers does mr. jones bike when he takes the shortcut instead of the long route?