Central sub made 27 sandwiches useing 12 pounds of turkey how much turkey per sandwich?
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Answer:
<em>a</em> = -10 and <em>b</em> = 18.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let <em>w</em> represent the width of the rectangle.
We are given that the perimeter of the rectangle is 20 cm, this means that:
Let's put <em>w</em> in terms of <em>x</em>. Divide both sides by two:
And solve for <em>w:</em>
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So, the rectangle measures <em>x</em> by (10 -<em> x</em>) cm.
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According to the Pythagorean Theorem:
<em>a</em> and <em>b</em> are the legs and <em>c</em> is the hypotenuse.
Substitute <em>x</em> for <em>a, w</em> for <em>b</em>, and 8 for <em>c:</em>
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Simplify and substitute:
Square:
Isolate the equation. So:
Since the leading coefficient is one, divide both sides by two:
Therefore, <em>a</em> = -10 and <em>b</em> = 18.
One way you could solve this is to just multiply the top and bottom out so that you get 9/81, reducing it by 9/9 to get 1/9 or option C.
Another way would be to do
since dividing numbers with exponents would be subtracting the bottom exponent from the top exponent, provided that the base number (in this case 3) is the same for both. For this method, you would get 
, which is equal to 1/9 or .1 repeating, the same answer that you'd get with the first method.
Another way would be to do