How many pounds of chocolate-covered almonds selling for $9.99 per pound should be mixed with 3 pounds of chocolate-covered raisins selling for $5.99 per pound to obtain a mixture selling for $8.75 per pound?

Ms. sutton recorded the word counts and scores of the top ten essays in a timed writing contest. the table shows her data. how does the word count of an essay relate to its score in the contest? word count tends to decrease as the score decreases. word count tends to increase as the score decreases. word count tends to remain constant as the score decreases. word count has no apparent relationship to the score of the essay.

Bruce is getting materials for a chemistry experiment his teacher gives him a container that has 0.25 liter of liquid in it.bruce need to use 0.4 of this liquid for the experiment. how much liquid will bruce use?

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