15. Lisa has 64 cloth strips to make a rug. There are 8 red strips and 14 blue strips. What fraction of the cloth strips are red? What fraction are blue? (11-1) BIR R​

X/y + 4y/x divided by x/y - 2y/x explain as in depth as you can how you simplfied the fractions. i don't know where to start on this : /

Sam opened a money-market account that pays 3% simple interest. he started the account with $7,000 and made no further deposits. when he closed the account, he had earned $420 in interest. how long did he keep his account open?

Becca wants to mix fruit juice and soda to make a punch. she can buy fruit juice for $3 a gallon and soda for $4 a gallon. if she wants to make 28 gallons of punch at a cost of $3.25 a gallon, how many gallons of fruit juice and how many gallons of soda should she buy?