there was a seller of horses, who sold all his horses to three people. To the first man he sold half of all his horses and a half of a horse. to the second man he sold half of what he had left and half of a horse. To the third man he again sold half of what was left and a half of a horse. How many horses did he have at first?

For a read-a-thon, jay and odhràn each started reading a book at the same time and continued reading for several hours. jay's book had 278 pages, and he read 55 pages per hour. odhràn's book had 238 pages, and he read 45 pages per hour. after how many hours did they have the same number of pages left, and how many pages were left?

How many solutions does the nonlinear system of equations graphed below have?

Heather is writing a quadratic function that represents a parabola that touches but does not cross the x-axis at x = -6. which function could heather be writing? fx) = x2 + 36x + 12 = x2 - 36x - 12 f(x) = -x + 12x + 36 f(x) = -x? - 12x - 36