Nikki wants to buy a dog bed that cost $87. She earns four dollars per week folding laundry and two dollars per week pulling weeds. How many weeks will Nikki have to do her chores in order to earn enough money to pay for the dog bed? Explain.

Over which interval is the graph of f(x) = x2 + 5x + 6 increasing?

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?

How can writing phrases as algebraic expressions you solve problems?