Jordan takes 50% of the cherries from a bowl. then mei takes 50%of the remaining cherries. finally greg takes 50 %of the remaining cherries. there are 3 cherries left. how many cherries were in the bowl before jordan arrived

Apackage of bacon holds 15 strips of bacon. the pancake house uses 17 packages of bacon in the morning and 21 packages in the afternoon. how many more strips were used in the afternoon than the morning?

Kevin is an insurance salesman. when he sells a policy, he makes 20 percent of the policy premium (p) up front; then each year the policy is active, he receives 15 percent of the original premium. which equation could be used to figure his total commission on a policy that has been active for five years? c=0.80p c=0.20p + 0.15p c=0.35p + 4(0.15) c=0.95p

Jessica and martha each have a bag of cookies with unequal quantities. they have 30 cookies total between the two of them. each of them ate 6 cookies from their bag. the product of the number of cookies left in each bag is not more than 80. how many more cookies will jessica have martha? if x represents the number of cookies jessica started with, complete the statements below. the inequality that describes the relationship between the number of cookies each one of them has is x^2 - x +224 > = 0.jessica has at least cookies more than martha.