3.
a restaurant charges 6% sales tax on all items sold. sylvia paid $20 for her check
and received $4.63 in change. the equation 20-1.06x = 4.63 can be used to find x,
the cost of sylvia's meal before tax. what was the cost of the meal before tax?
a. $14.31
b. $14.50
c. $15.37
d. $16.29

It is saturday morning and jeremy has discovered he has a leak coming from the water heater in his attic. since plumbers charge extra to come out on the weekends, jeremy is planning to use buckets to catch the dripping water. he places a bucket under the drip and steps outside to walk the dog. in half an hour the bucket is 1/5 of the way full. what is the rate at which the water is leaking per hour?