Most real number arithmetic is pretty vacuous

That's about as good a way as possible to write this particular real number. But it's far from the only way.

so

Sometimes you can factor something out and you have a common radical:

But most of them are vacuous,

3xcubed y to the fifth over 2
Use a variable to represent the number of hours the technician will work, plus the $50.
50+25x
This would be the expression used to find the amount of money the technician needs.
Answer:
The amount of water left is 1550 litres
(5b)(-3a)
= (5*(-3))(b*a) (combine like terms)
= -15ab
The final answer is -15ab~