Hi,
1) D
Working :
If the bell rings for 2 weeks straight that means it rings for 14 days.
The bell rings 48 times a day (2 * 24).
The answer is then: 48*14 = 672
2) C
Working:
144 cookies * 8 batches = 864 cookies
864 divided into boxes of 8 = 864 / 8 = 108
4.4354 rounded to 2 decimal places is 4.44
Keep in mind the the word "percent" translates to "for each 100." 25% can be read as "25 for each 100," which has the fractional representation

and the decimal representation 0.25. All of these representations are just different ways of writing the same value.
Note too that the fraction

can be reduced to

, so what the question is really asking is: 1/4 of what number is 9?
Well, if we know that 1/4 of the number is 9, we can easily find how large the whole number is by finding all 4/4 of it (the <em>whole</em> number)<em /><em />, or 4 x 9, which multiplies out to
36.
I’m pretty sure the answer is 4x+5