The price of a slice of pizza is represented by the letter p. Pizza is on sale this week: you canbuy each slice for $1.00 off their usual price. If you buy 8 slices at the lower price, how muchdo you pay in total? (include p in your answer.)

The cost of a small salad at the deli was marked up 30% after a recent drought destroyed most of the lettuce crop.  Determine the new cost if the price prior to the drought was $1.80. Then find the sales tax of the new price if the tax rate is 6%. (Round to the nearest cent.)

will he earn in four weeks? 2 Sally receives $5.00 a week for allowance. She is saving to buy a pair of rolles blades that cost $45.00. How many weeks must she save? Nancy earns $2.00 an hour babysitting. She babysat on Saturday from 7:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. How much did she earn? Dennis mows and trims lawns for $3.50 an hour. It took him 3 hours to do Mr. Wilson's lawn. How much did he earn?

Erasers are on sale for 45 cents each. Pencils are on sale for 40 cents each. Shirleybuys 23 pencils and erasers and pays a total of $9.70, not including tax. If Shirley buysonly pencils and erasers, how many of each did Shirley buy?