Suppose a group of friends are trying to decide what type of food to have at a party. They decided to start a ranking system where first place votes get 3 points, second place votes get 2 points and third place votes get 1 point. All other places receive no points.
The winning food was chips and dip with 23 points. If it received 5 first place votes and 4 third place votes, how many second
place votes did it receive?

Ms. sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. the table shows her data. how does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest? word count tends to decrease as the score decreases. word count tends to increase as the score decreases. word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases. word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

Inez has a phone card. the graph shows the number of minutes that remain on her phone card a certain number of days.

Indicate the formula for the following conditions: p^c(n,r)=