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Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

Christine wong has asked dave and mike to her move into a new apartment on sunday morning. she has asked them both, in case one of them does not show up. from past experience, christine knows that there is a 40% chance that dave will not show up and a 30% chance that mik a. what is the probability that both dave and mike will show up? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. what is the probability that at least one of them will show up? c. what is the probability that neither dave nor mike will show up? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)e will not show up. dave and mike do not know each other and their decisions can be assumed to be independent.

Suppose the equation ||x-a|-b|=2008 has 3 distinct real roots and a not =0. find the value of b.