A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 100 nails and each large box has 350 nails. The contractor bought a total of 9 boxes that have 2400 nails altogether. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

Achef will make pizzas. he has broccoli, peppers, onions, pepperoni, and sausage. how many types of vegetable and one type of meat?

Statements reasons 1. ab ? cd; ad ? bc 1. given 2. ac ? ac 2. reflexive property 3. ? adc ? ? cba 3. ? 4. ? dac ? ? bca; ? acd ? ? cab 4. cpctc 5. ? dac and ? bca are alt. int. ? s; ? acd and ? cab are alt. int. ? s 5. definition of alternate interior angles 6. ab ? cd; ad ? bc 6. converse of the alternate interior angles theorem 7. abcd is a parallelogram 7. definition of parallelogram what is the missing reason in step 3?

The stem-and-leaf plot shows the heights in centimeters of teddy bear sunflowers grown in two different types of soil. soil a soil b 5 9 5 2 1 1 6 3 9 5 1 0 7 0 2 3 6 7 8 2 1 8 3 0 9 key: 9|6 means 69 key: 5|8 means 58 calculate the mean of each data set. calculate the mean absolute deviation (mad) of each data set. which set is more variable? how do you know?