In this case we have the following expression:
We know that Karen was trying to factor out this and she found that the greatest common factor of these terms was 2, in other words we can write this expression as:
An area model for this expression could be the area of a rectangle that has the following dimensions:
So the area model can be written as:
Answer:
a = 12m
Step-by-step explanation:
In order to solve this problem we will need to know the Pythagoras theorem that states that in a right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite to the right angel) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. This theorem can be written as an equation....
Now we can see that we can easily find the missing value by using this theorem. We just have to substitute the values. And we get the following