You would set it up: .5/100 = x/490 and then cross multiply .5 time 490 and 100 times x, and end up with: 245=100x. divide by 100, and get 2.45
The correct answer is y=-2
I hope this helps :)
If you would like to solve the system of equations, you can do this using the following steps:
5p - 3r = 1 /*2
8p + 6r = 4
__________
10p - 6r = 2
<span>8p + 6r = 4
</span>__________
10p - 6r + 8p + 6r = 2 + 4
18p = 6
p = 6/18
p = 1/3
<span>5p - 3r = 1
</span>5 * 1/3 - 3r = 1
5/3 - 3r = 1
5/3 - 1 = 3r
5/3 - 3/3 = 3r
2/3 = 3r
r = 2/9
(p, r) = (1/3, 2/9)
The correct result would be <span>(1/3, 2/9)</span>.
The area is 1680 ft. squared
let's firstly convert both fractions with the same denominator, by simply <u>multiplying each fraction by the other's denominator</u>, let's proceed.
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