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Mr. Stevens bought 15 books for his store. He paid $11 for each book. He then soldall 15 books for $25 each.

A. What is the difference between the total amount of money Mr. Stevens sold thebooks for and the total amount of money he paid for the books? Show or explainall your work.

Mr. Stevens has $220 to purchase books at $8 each (tax included).B. How many books can Mr. Stevens buy? Show or explain all your work.

A movie theater has 300 seats. There are 25 rows of seats in the theater. The manager ofthe theater wrote the equation below.

A. Solve for the variable n in the equation. Show all your work

B. Explain what the variable n represents in the equation.

C. The theater sold tickets for all 300 seats. Just before the movie started, themanager counted 23 empty seats in the theater.

Write an equation that could be used to find the number of people (p) that were in the theater seats just before the movie started. Explain why your equation is correct.