How can you tell if a equation is extraneous

One month, a music site observed that 60% of the people who downloaded songs from its site downloaded q sam's latest single. the equation below represents this information, where x represents the total number of people who ddownloaded songs from the site that month: x = 0.6x + 384 how many people who downloaded songs from the site that month downloaded q sam's latest single?

Nikolas calculated the volume of the prism. his work is shown below.

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size.it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?