If x varies directly as y, and x = 48 when y = 16, find x when y = 5.

Awater truck is filling a swimming pool. the equation that represents this relationship is y=19.75x where y is the number of gallons of water in the pool and x is the number of minutes the truck has been filling the pool.

Ashley recently opened a store that sells only natural ingredients. she wants to advertise her products by distributing bags of samples in her neighborhood. it takes one person 22 minutes to prepare one bag. how many hours will it take to prepare 900900 bags of samples if ashley and 55 of her friends do the work?

If a + b = 4, what is the value of |4 – a| + |4 – b|?