Mr. Simpson has 5 boxes of paintbrushes in his art room. After the first week of school, he buys 3 more paintbrushes. The expression below shows the total number of paintbrushes in Mr. Simpson's art room when prepresents the number of brushes in each box. 3 + px 5 If each box contains 8 paintbrushes, how many total paintbrushes are in Mr. Simpson's art room? (Show your work or explain how you got your answer in words)​

Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297