A family of mice is collecting pieces of food that fall on the floor in a restaurant. If the mice collect 24 pieces of food every day for 4 days, we want to
estimate the number of pieces of food they have collected. Which of the following
is the closest estimate to 24?

According to statistics a person will devote 32 years to sleeping and watching tv. the number of years sleeping will exceed the number of years watching tv by 18. over a lifetime, how many years will the person spend on each of these activities

Astudent is determining the influence of different types of food on the growth rate of spiders. she feeds one group of spiders two caterpillars twice a week. the other group received similarly-sized beetles twice a week. she records the amount of time required for individuals to reach sexual maturity. her hypothesis is that the spiders feeding on caterpillars will have a faster growth rate because caterpillars have a higher protein content compared to beetles. in this experiment, what is the dependent variable? spiders assigned to different feeding groups. time required to reach sexual maturity number of prey items fed twice a week. growth rates of each group.

Determine the equivalent system for the given system of equations: 5x − 3y = 6 x + y = 2