Mrs. Deblinsky purchases 850 shares of Cracker Barrell at 45.20 per share. She pays a 1.5% commission to her broker for the transaction. After a year, she sells her holdings for 41.90 a share, using a discount broker who charges $19 per trade. What was her net capital loss?

Students buying lunch at rockwell elementary school yesterday chose either burritos or pizza. 185 students chose burritos and 252 chose pizza. 1. estimate the number of students who brought lunch by rounding each number to the nearest hundred. 2. estimate how many students bought lunch by rounding each number to the nearest ten. 3. find the total number of students who brought lunch. which of your estimates is closer to the actual total? explain. 4. draw a figure on a sheet of paper. estimate how many pennies will fit inside the figure. check your prediction using pennies.

Finally, the arena decides to offer advertising space on the jerseys of the arena’s own amateur volley ball team. the arena wants the probability of being shortlisted to be 0.14. what is this as a percentage and a fraction? what is the probability of not being shortlisted? give your answer as a decimal. those shortlisted are entered into a final game of chance. there are six balls in a bag (2 blue balls, 2 green balls and 2 golden balls). to win, a company needs to take out two golden balls. the first ball is not replaced. what is the probability of any company winning advertising space on their volley ball team jerseys?

Liz is shipping a package to her friend. the maximum weight of a medium flat-rate box is 20 pounds, including the box which weighs 6 ounces. write and solve an inequality to describe the possible weight in pounds, w, of the contents that liz will ship to her friend if she must use a medium flat-rate box. use the drop-down menus to explain your answer.