Connie and chris are saving money to go to a concert. connie has $9 and saves $6 per week.

connie wrote an equation to determine how much she saves in a given week.

y=6x+9

chris has $27 and saves $3 per week.

chris made a graph to show how much he saves in a given week.

how many weeks will it take connie and chris to save the same amount of money?

Amerchant has coffee worth $60 a pound that she wishes to mix with 50 pounds of coffee worth $90 a pound to get a mixture that she will sell for $70 a pound. how many pounds of the & 60 coffee should be used?

Acompany produces packets of soap powder labeled “giant size 32 ounces.” the actual weight of soap powder in such a box has a normal distribution with a mean of 33 oz and a standard deviation of 0.7 oz. to avoid having dissatisfied customers, the company says a box of soap is considered underweight if it weighs less than 32 oz. to avoid losing money, it labels the top 5% (the heaviest 5%) overweight. how heavy does a box have to be for it to be labeled overweight?

Explain how you divide powers with like bases. discuss why the bases have to be the same. how are these rules similar to the rules for multiplying powers with like bases.