So if it has to be simplified, there is only one answer if all of it is positive but it has a solution to do with minus numbers which is -2 (-x-2)
So,
The ratio of dogs to cats:

The other proportion:


5 times 28 is 140.
Multiply the fraction by the appropriate form of 1

There are 56 dogs when the number of cats is 140.
I don't understand your question, what exactly am I calculating here if there are no digits? Please elaborate. Thank you
So you have x^3 - 4x = 0. What you can do is pull out an x from both x^3 and - 4x so it looks like this:

Then you can find a number that makes the part inside the parentheses turn into zero. For beginners, it may be easier to write it out seperately and solve for x.

We need to solve for x, so the first step is to add 4 to both sides, so we get something like this:

Then, we can square root both sides to get rid of the power on the x, so it looks like this:

Now, every square root has two answers, a positive and a negative. If we look at the bottom example:


We can see that both -2 and 2 to the power of two will equal to 4.
So finally, we get:

These are the other 'Zero's for the original function. If you are not sure of what a 'Zero' is, it is where the function crosses over the x-axis on a graph.
Answer:
389.9 to 1 decimal place
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