Given:
The equation is:

To find:
The next step in simplifying the equation by using distributive property.
Solution:
Distributive property: According to this property if a, b and c are three real numbers, then

We have,

Using the distributive property, we get

It can be written as:

Therefore, the next step of the simplification is
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No - It is a function.
A relation which is not a function has more than 1 output for an input.
I think that the answer is D
The number 1.04 represents the rate at which the house appreciates, or increases in its price annually.
As according to the values of an exponential equation, which is represented by this: y=ab^x, the a value represents the original price, the b value represents the rate of growth/decay (if growth, you add 1 to the rate, if decay, you subtract the rate from 1), and x represents the amount of times it decays or grows.
As according to the function <span> f(x) = 242,000(1.04)^x, 242,000 is the original price and 1.04 is the rate of growth since 1 has been added to the the 4% annual growth.</span>
If patio is square it means that area of if is

where a is one side
Now we can substitute A=200 and solve eq

a=

a=14.1421
Now we are rounding to the nearest tenths
a=14.1 because next number is 4 and is less then 5.
The result is 14.1