What is the first step to solve the absolute value expression 2[x+5]=16 for x

Chamberlin wants to bottle 1\8 of her apple cider. she pours the apple cider evenly among 6 bottles. what fraction of her apple cider will she put in each bottle? what expression could represent this situation?

The ratio of rock songs to dance songs on jonathan’s mp3 player is 5: 6. the total number of rock and dance songs jonathan has is between 101 120. how many rock songs does he have?

Lance lived in portugal and brazil for a total of 14 months to learn portuguese. he learned an average of 130 new words per month when he lived in portugal, and an average of 150 new words per month when he lived in brazil. in total he learned 1920 new words. write a system of equations to represent the situation. use x to represent portugal, and y to represent brazil