Destiny is five more than twice the age of her nephew Sam. The sum of their age is 23
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So this is essentially a proportion problem. They want you to be able to recognize a relationship between the two. The easiest way to go about this is to draw a picture (I have included one). What you want to do is notice that you are given both shadow lengths. This is essentially going to be your first step to creating the proportion.
Understanding that we know the shadow lengths, we can turn these into a fraction such as so:
4ft/20ft.
Now that we know that, we need to look at are unknown. Our unknown is the height of the utility pole. We can solve this by substituting for X since we know the utility worker is 5.5 ft tall.
Your fraction for that would look like:
5.5ft/X
Make sure to always make your top to top match, such as since I put the utility worker's shadow on top, I need to put his height on top.
Now we can solve.
4ft/20ft =5.5ft/X
We need to cross multiply to get an equation we can work with. If we cross multiply, Your equation will look like:
4x = 110ft
This is a simple one step equation. Divide both sides by 4 to get your answer.
x= 27.5ft.
This means your Utility pole's height is 27.5ft.
Answer:
The signup fee is $17
Step-by-step explanation:
we know that
The equation in point slope form is equal to
where
m is the slope or unit rate of the linear equation
(x1,y1) is a ordered pair of the line
Let
x -----> the number of months
y -----> the total cost of a gym membership
In this problem we have
The slope of unit rate is equal to
The ordered pair is
substitute
----> equation in point slope form
Convert to slope intercept form
---> equation in slope intercept form
The y-intercept is the signup fee (value of y when the value of x is equal to zero)
therefore
The signup fee is $17