Usually when you do expressions involving subtraction you can do Keep, Change ,Change
That means you keep the sign of the first number and change the other two signs.
It is best you rewrite the expression to addition because a lot of people don't do well with subtracting .
Answer:
7
Step-by-step explanation:
take the perimeter of what you have now (14) and divide it by 2, because it is dilated by 1/2
Here I copy the steps and indicate where the error is.
Square root of negative 2x plus 1 − 3 = x=> <span>this is the starting equation
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√[ - 2x + 1] - 3 = x
Square root of negative 2x plus 1 − 3 + 3 = x + 3 in this step she added 3 to each side, which is fine
<span> Square root
of negative 2x plus 1 = x + 3 <span>she made the addtions => fine</span></span>
Square root of negative 2x plus 1 − 1 = x + 3 – 1 due to <span>plus 1 in inside the square root, this step will not help</span>
<span> Square root
of negative 2 x = x + 2 <span>wrong! she cannot simplify - 1 that is out of the square root with +1 that is inside the square root
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<span>Then, from here on all is wrong, but she made other additional mistakes.</span>
(Square root of negative 2 x)2 = (x − 4)2 −2x <span> the right side should be (x+2)^2 which is x^2 + 4x +4 not (x-4)^2 - 2x</span>
Later she made a mistake changing the sign of -8x to +8x
Those are the mistakes. Finally, the global error is that she should verify whether the found values satisfied the original equation.
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