Do I have to make the plus sign a minus I’m unsure n + 16 = 9

Acompany is making new soccer uniforms for a team. the company uses 2.5 yards of fabric for each shirt. the company uses 82.5 yards of fabric to make shirts and shorts for 15 players. the equation and solution below represents the situation. 15(2.5+x)=82.5; x=3 what does the solution, x=3, represent?

The manufacturer of a new product developed the following expression to predict the monthly profit, in thousands of dollars, from sales of the productwhen it is sold at a unit price of x dollars.-0.5x^2 + 22x - 224what is represented by the zero(s) of the expression? a.the profit when the unit price is equal to 0b.the unit price(s) when the profit is equal to 0c.the profit when the unit price is greatestd.the unit price(s) when profit is greatest

White shapes and black shapes are used in a game. some of the shapes are circles. while the rest are squares. the ratio of the number of white shapes to the number of black shapes is 5: 11. the ratio of the number of white cicrles to the number of white squares is 3: 7. the ratio of the number of black circles to the number of black squres is 3: 8. work out what fraction of all the shapes are circles.