Your dad is designing a new garden for your backyard. He has 20 feet of fencing to go around the garden. He wants the length of the garden to be 2 1/2 feet longer than the width. How long should he make the garden?

Jace wrote a sentence as an equation. 56 is 14 more than a number. 14+ = 56 which statement best describes jace's work? jace is not correct. the phrase more than suggests using the symbol > and jace did not use that symbol. jace is not correct. he was correct to use addition, but the equation should be 56+ p = 14 jace is not correct. the first number in the sentence is 56, so the equation should start with 56. jace is correct. the phrase more than suggests addition, so jace showed that 14 plus a variable equals 56. o

Me with this assignment ! i only partially understand, so explain. also it's a work sample. at the championship bike race, steve and paula were fighting for first place. steve was 175 feet ahead of paula and had only 300 feet left to go. he was very tired and was going only 9 feet per second. paula was desperate to catch up and was going 15 feet per second. who won the bike race and by how far did she/he win?

The key on a road map has a scale factor of 1.5 inches = 50 miles. the distance between santa fe and albuquerque measures 7.5 inches. the distance between santa fe and taos is 0.75 inches. what is the actual distance between the cities?