A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 150 nails and each large box has 450 nails. The contractor bought twice as many large boxes as small boxes, which altogether had 4200 nails. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

The graph shows the prices of different numbers of bushels of corn at a store in the current year. the table shows the prices of different numbers of bushels of corn at the same store in the previous year. previous year number of bushels price of corn (dollars) 2 10 4 20 6 30 8 40 part a: describe in words how you can find the rate of change of a bushel of corn in the current year, and find the value. part b: how many dollars more is the price of a bushel of corn in the current year than the price of a bushel of corn in the previous year? show your work.

Which region represents the solution to the given system of inequalities? |-0.5x+y23 | 1.5x+ys-1 5 4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4

Which shows one way to determine the factors of 4x3 + x2 – 8x – 2 by grouping?