-⅔ (6x + 9) = 18
Apply distributive property. Multipy -⅔ to 6x and 9.
-4x - 6 = 18
Add 6 to both sides so -4x can be alone.
-4x - 6 + 6 = 18 + 6
-4x = 24
To get x alone, divide both sides by -4.
-4/-4x = 24/-4
x = -6
x = -6 is your answer. I hope this helps! Let me know if you need more help or if I got something wrong.
FOIL is a mnemonic rule for multiplying binomial (that is, two-term) algebraic expressions.
FOIL abbreviates the sequence "First, Outside, Inside, Last"; it's a way of remembering that the product is the sum of the products of those four combinations of terms.
For instance, if we multiply the two expressions
(x + 1) (x + 2)
then the result is the sum of these four products:
x times x (the First terms of each expression)
x times 2 (the Outside pair of terms)
1 times x (the Inside pair of terms)
1 times 2 (the Last terms of each expression)
and so
(x + 1) (x + 2) = x^2 + 2x + 1x + 2 = x^2 + 3x + 2
[where the ^ is the usual way we indicate exponents here in Answers, because they're hard to represent in an online text environment].
Now, compare this to multiplying a pair of two-digit integers:
37 × 43
= (30 × 40) + (30 × 3) + (7 × 40) + (7 × 3)
= 1200 + 90 + 280 + 21
= 1591
The reason the two processes resemble each other is that multiplication is multiplication; the difference in the ways we represent the factors doesn't make it a fundamentally different operation.
Answer:
x = 2
Step-by-step explanation:
It is a negative 2 so the answer is (7,-2)
Answer: 10, 8, 6 , 4, 2, 0, -2, -4, ...
Explanation: every number of the sequence is the previous less 2 and the first terms is 10.
