Answer:
There are total 30 books in the 5 feet high stack of books.
Step-by-step explanation:
The complete question is
Given, Each note book is 2 inches thick, How many notebooks do you think it would take to make a stack that is 5 feet high
Solution
Thickness of each book 
The total height of the book stack is
feet.
The number of books in the stack is equal to total height of the stack divided by the thickness of one book
Number of books in five feet high stack is

Hence, there are total 30 books in the 5 feet high stack of books.

We can factorise this expression by grouping. First let us arrange it in this way

Let us bracket them like this:

In the first bracket portion, take x as common and in the second expression, take 2 as common.

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Hope you could understand.
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Answer:
d. no; If x is 5, the expression on the left simplifies to 8, making the inequality false.