Juan and his children went into a movie theater and he bought $52.50 worth of bags of popcorn and pretzels. Each bag of popcorn costs $7.50 and each pretzel costs $3.75. He bought 5 more pretzels than bags of popcorn. Graphically solve a system of equations in order to determine the number of bags of popcorn, x, x, and the number of pretzels, y, y, that Juan bought.

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