Adrianne is planning to bake some chocolate, strawberry, and raisin muffins for a party. she was asked to bake half as many chocolate muffins as raisin muffins and three times as many strawberry muffins as chocolate muffins. if she only had enough ingredients to bake 480 muffins, how many raisin muffins did she bake.

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation