The answer is -28 I got you if you need more answers
Let <span>the town courthouse be the origin of coordinate plane, the positive direction of x-axis is west and negative direction is east, the positive direction of y-axis is north and negative direction is south. Then a lawyer home has coordinates (-2,3) and lawyer office has coordinates (5, -21).
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Use the distance formula
to get the <span>distance between lawyer's home and office:
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Answer: 25 miles.
That means that, for example:
if your number is 49 the nearest whole number would be 50.
so by saying estimate the figure to the nearest whole number , they are basically saying find your nearest whole number.
He drank more than half of his drink... So we need to look for fractions greater than 1/2.
First, lets find equivalents of 1/2
If all of these fractions are equal to 1/2, then by adding to the numerator of these fractions, we'l have fractions greater than 1/2.
2 +1 3
__= ___
4 4
3/4 is greater than 1/2
Mike could have drunken 3/4 of the juice
4/6>1/2 Mike could have drunken 4/6 of the juice
5/8 is greater then 1/2 Mike could have drank 5/8 of the drink.
Answer=3/4, 4/6, 5/8 and many more possible fractions