Shen rented a truck for one day. There was a base fee of $14.99, and there was an additional charge of 88 cents for each mile driven. Shen had to pay $268.43 when he returned the truck. For how many miles did he drive the truck?

Asays "we are both knaves" and b says nothing. exercises 24–31 relate to inhabitants of an island on which there are three kinds of people: knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and spies (called normals by smullyan [sm78]) who can either lie or tell the truth. you encounter three people, a, b, and c. you know one of these people is a knight, one is a knave, and one is a spy. each of the three people knows the type of person each of other two is. for each of these situations, if possible, determine whether there is a unique solution and determine who the knave, knight, and spy are. when there is no unique solution, list all possible solutions or state that there are no solutions. 24. a says "c is the knave," b says, "a is the knight," and c says "i am the spy."

Steve wants to develop a way to find the total cost of any item including sales tax. the sales tax in his city is 6%. his friend jenna writes the expression x + 6x where x is the cost of the item. explain whether her expression is correct based on the situation.

For which pairs of functions is (f•g)(x)=12x? f(x)=3-4x and g(x)=16x-3 f(x)=6x2 and g(x)= 2/x f(x)= and g(x) = 144x f(x)=4x and g(x) =3x