What should you do first in solving this equation?
x² + 6x - 13 = 3

Rai compares two cable plans from different companies. which equation gives the correct value of mm, the number of months for which plans a and b cost the same?

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Due to a packaging error, 4 cans labeled diet soda were accidentally filled with regular soda and placed in a 12 pack carton of diet soda. two cans were randomly selected from this 12 pack. what is the probability that both cans were regular soda?