Timothy is getting balloons for his grandmother's birthday party. He wants each balloon string to be 12 feet long. At the party store, string is sold by the yard. If Timothy wants to get 44 balloons, how many yards of string will he need?

The sum of the product of 4 and x and the product of 7 and y is 61. the sum of the product of 12 and x and the product of 21 and y is 61. what are the values of x and y?

Zoey made 5 1/2 cups of trail mix for a camping trip. she wants to divide the trail mix into 3/4 cup servings. a. ten people are going on the trip. can zoey make enough 3/4 cup servings so that each person gets one serving? b. what size would the servings need to be for everyone to have a serving?

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry. how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.