Answer:
Tara's current expression finds how much the school will be keeping. 50 x 2/5 (also written as 50 x 0.4) totals out as 20. $20 is 2/5 of $50. The expression that Tara SHOULD have written to find how much goes to the candle company would be 50 x 3/5 (also written as 50 x 0.6), as this adds up to 30. $30 is 3/5 of $50.
Step-by-step explanation:
50/5 = 10 which means that 1/5 of 50 = 10.
2/5 of 50 ($20) is kept by the school. This is what Tara's expression finds. This means that $30 is sent to the candle company, and can be found with the expression 50 x 3/5.
The decimals are created by dividing the numerator of the fraction by the denominator (I find it easier to do math with decimals).
Given:
The volume of the rectangular prism is

,
the height is h=(b+3)
1. The volume of a rectangular prism is (base area)*height
also, notice that the volume is a third degree polynomial, the height is a 1st degree polynomial, so the base area must be a 2nd degree polynomial, whose coefficients we don't know yet.
Let this quadratic polynomial be
2

notice that

is the product of the largest 2 terms:

and b, so m must be 1
also, notice that 12 is the product of the constants, k and 3
so k*3=12, this means k=4
3
we write the above equality again:


=

4
now compare the coefficient with the left side:

8=n+3
n=5
substituting n=5:
the base area is

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