Evaluate 8a −1 + 0.5b when a = 1/4 and b = 10

To decrease an amount by 16% what single multiplier would you use

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

Aremote-controlled boat can travel at 4 feet per second in calm water. the boat traveled 48 feet with the current, and then it traveled 16 feet against the current in the same amount of time. how fast is the current?