Answer:
You can buy 12 gallons of gas.
Step-by-step explanation:
I took 40 and 3.25, then divided them.
I got a very large ugly decimal. When simplified it is 12.
Answer:
277 miles
Step-by-step explanation:
224+17+36=277
A. 2x+y=25; x+y=20
x represents cheese wafers and y represents chocolate wafers.
B. I will choose elimination since there is y and y. I can multiply one equation by -1 to get y and -y, which cancels out.
2x+y=25
-x-y=-20
Add equations
x=5
Plug x in
5+y=20
y=15
Final answer: 5 cheese wafers, 15 chocolate wafers
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
It's already in a form that only ha positive exponents. Just to state it though you could rewrite it as
or
The question asks for positive exponents though so yu don't need to do that.
You also need to know
so in this case 
so 
Answer: 17
Step-by-step explanation:
If there are 5 cows and they add 12 then there are 17 cows in total
12+5=17