Andy and his friend sam were walking along the road together. andy has a big bag of marbles. unfortunately the bottom of the bag split and all the marbles spilled out.
one third (1/3) of the marbles rolled down the slope.
one sixth (1/6) of them disappeared into the water drain.
andy and sam picked up all they could but half (1/2) of the marbles that remained nearby were picked up by other children who ran off with them.
andy counted all of the marbles he and sam had rescued. he gave on third (1/3) of these to sam for him pick them up. andy put his remaining marbles into his pocket. there were 14 of them. how many marbles were in andy's bag before the bottom split?

At river bank, checking account customers earn 0.75% interest a month on their account balances, pay no service fees for writing checks, and pay a monthly $2.00 financial charge. calculate the income earned in one month on the checking account for a customer with an account balance of $1,000. a. $4.25 b. $5.50 c. $6.75 d. $7.25 checking account earnings at baker’s bank are expressed by the equation: i = -0.09x + 10.2. while the earnings at elite bank are modeled by: i = -0.02x + 7.5. in both cases, x is the number of checks written. at what number of checks will elite bank start generating more checking account income than baker's bank? a. 12 b. 25 c. 39 d. 42 emilio’s checking account had a balance of 728.32 at the beginning of the week. he wrote checks for the following amounts throughout the week: $99.48, $33.50, $18.23, and $72.05. he also deposited his paycheck in the amount of $1,109.90. what is his account balance at the end of the week? a. $1,192.35 b. $1,222.86 c. $1,540.52 d. $1,614.96