Mrs. williams is organizing her office supplies. there are 3 open boxes of paper clips in her desk drawer. each box has 7/8 of the paper clips remaining. how many boxes of paper lips are left?

Abank manager wants to encourage new customers to open accounts with principals of at least $2 comma 500. he decides to make a poster advertising a simple interest rate of 3%. what must the principal be if the bank manager also wants to advertise that one can earn $10 the first month? can the poster correctly say, "open an account of $2 comma 500 and earn at least $10 interest in 1 month! "?