The cafeteria at Local Middle School offers a choice of either a sandwich or soup every Thursday. Of 55 students who purchased lunch this Thursday, 30 chose a sandwich.
What is the ratio of the number of students who chose a sandwich to all those who purchased lunch this Thursday?

The decibel level of sound is 50 db greater on a busy street than in a quiet room where the intensity of sound is watt/m2. the level of sound in the quiet room is db, and the intensity of sound in the busy street is watt/m2. use the formula , where is the sound level in decibels, i is the intensity of sound, and is the smallest sound intensity that can be heard by the human ear (roughly equal to watts/m2).

Tim's phone service charges $23.06 plus an additional $0.22 for each text message sent per month. if tim's phone bill was $28.56, which equation could be used to find how many text messages, x, tim sent last month?

Write the following as a base and exponent