How do you get the answer x=2.05, 2.05 from this equation?

In the equations, a and b represent the price per night for a room in hotel a and hotel b, respectively, w weeks after september 1 last autumn. what was the price per night in hotel a when it was equal to the price per night in hotel b? a = 240 − 20w b = 320 − 30w

Some boys and girls were asked if they had a pet. one third of the group were boys. there were 20 boys. 20% of the girls had a pet. boys with a pet : girls with a pet = 1 : 5 i need to know how many girls there are.

Now max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.