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Tod does not have any cookies. david gives jeff 8 cookies. then he splits half of the cookies he has left with tod. david let’s c represent the number of cookies that he starts with. he finds the number of cookies that tod has is 1/2 the difference of c and 8. write an expression to represent the number of cookies that tod has.

When keisha installed a fence along the 200 foot perimeter of her rectangular back yard, she left an opening for a gate.in the diagram below, she used x to represent the length in feet of the gate? what is the value? a. 10 b. 20 c. 25 d. 30