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Mel fills his gas tank up with 6 gallons of premium unleaded gas for a cost of $26.58. How much would it cost to full an 18 gallon tank?
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Jacob ran 10 miles in 80 minutes. At that rate how far would he run in 2.5 hours?
Alright assuming they mean total surface area since they didn't say lateral the equation to follow would be S= Ph + 2B
Start with P:
P stands for perimeter, so add up all the edges on one face of the cube.

Then your equation becomes
S= 68×h + 2B
h=height and that's obviously 17
so, S= 68×17 +2B
Now to find B. This is pretty easy. All you need to do is take 17×17 because you're finding the area of the base. This equals 289.
Finally this leaves us with the equation
S= 68×17+2×289
From there on you just solve it out.
This would leave you with 1734.
The product of 9 and 12 is 108
You need to make the right side = 0
To do this you subtract 10 from both sides of the equation:-
x^2 + 6x + 9 - 10 = 10 - 10
x^2 + 6x - 1 = 0