What does an equal sign with a squiggle on top mean?

3x + (x-8) = 23 how do I solve it

Complete the recursive formula of the geometric squence: 56, - 28, 14, - 7

Write 968,000 in scientific notation

Cheese sticks that were previously priced at 5 for $1 are now four for $1 find the percent decrease in the number of cheese sticks you can buy for $1

Keisha swims 18 ft from one side of her circular pool to the other, swimming straight through the center. She then swims one time around the entire edge of her swimming pool. Enter your answers in the boxes.

A ticket agency charges a 9.5% fee on all tickets sold. If a ticket costs $40, what is the fee?

Inventory for a company is taken hourly from 10 to 4:00. At the start of the day, the warehouse had 65 boxes. Between 10 and 11, 7 boxes were shipped. From 11 to noon, 5 were sent, and another 9 between noon and 1 p. m.

The area of a Square family room is 100 square meters how long is each side of the family room

The length of a rectangle field is 24 meters. This is 3 meters less than twice the width. Find the width.

A personal pan 8 inch pizza is cut into 5 equal slices. What is the area of 1 slice of pizza to the nearest square in? Use 3.14 for pie