Is 9.75 a rational number?

Which statement best describes the polynomial

You are remodeling your kitchen. you’ve contacted two tiling companies who gladly told you how long it took their workers to tile of a similar size jim completed half the floor in 8 hours. pete completed half of the other floor in 7 hours. if pete can lay 20 more tiles per hour than jim, at what rate can jim lay tiles

If the cost to mail a package is an initial $5 and $0.28 for every pound the total cost to mail a package was $11.27, how much did the package weigh?