James is hosting a game show where a contestant has to draw a ball that is one of four colors from a pot. each day, a ball of a particular color will win. to mix up the possibilities, james decides to keep unequal number of balls for each color. there will be as many black balls as red balls. green balls and red balls should add up to 10. there should be 10 more blue balls than red balls. a math expert tells james that he should have at least 2,304 possible combinations to provide sufficient difficulty. identify the values for the number of red balls the pot should have to ensure that james’ condition is met.

Beatrice decides she wants to babysit a few children at the same time to earn the money faster. she tells parents that if they allow her to babysit their children at her house, she will eliminate her automatic $5 tip and will give them an additional $5 discount. (a) write an equation showing the total cost for each client. identify all variables. (b) four parents bring their children to beatrice’s house at the same time for babysitting. beatrice wants to find out how many hours she must babysit the 4 children to earn exactly the $100 she needs in order to buy the present for her mother. write and solve an equation to find the number of hours. justify each step in the solution. (c) one parent decides not to drop off her child. the remaining 3 parents drop their children off at 9 a. m. two of the parents say they will be back at 1 p. m. the third parent says she will pick up her child at 2 p. m. at noon, beatrice realizes she needs feeding the 3 ch

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A. what does the point (4, 122) represent? b. what is the unit rate? c. what is the cost of buying 10 tickets?