The product of 3, and a number increased by 6, is minus−24

Students are given 3 minutes for each multiple-choice question and 5 minutes for each free-response question on a test. there are 15 questions on the test, and students are given 51 minutes to take it. how many multiple-choice questions are on the test?

Mr. brettler is hanging up a 5-foot tall rectangular welcome sign in the gym. he has drawn a sketch on a coordinate grid. he has the lower vertices of the sign at (9, –3) and (–6, –3). where would the upper vertices be on the grid?

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.