In a class of 14 boys and 16 girls 3 were absent. what fraction of the children were absent

Jack did 3/5 of all problems on his weekend homework before sunday. on sunday he solved 1/3 of what was left and the last 4 problems. how many problems were assigned for the weekend?

Marquise has 200 meters of fencing to build a rectangular garden. the garden's area (in square meters) as a function of the garden's width w w (in meters) is modeled by: a ( w ) = − w 2 + 1 0 0 w a(w)=−w 2 +100w what side width will produce the maximum garden area? meters

Change negative exponents to positive, then solve