You need to use the distributive property. So you take the -9 from outside the parentheses and multiply itself by the numbers inside.
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6.008 can be written as =
▪️6008 / 100
▪️6008 / 100
= 3004 / 50
= 1502 / 25
= 1502 / 25 in mixed fraction .
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That’s it...
The longer piece of wire is 42.5
The shorter piece of wire is 37.5
37.5+42.5=80
37.5 matches the requirements because it is 5 smaller than 42.5 :)
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You have to combine like terms, so 3b plus 2b equals 5b and you can't add b to 5a because they aren't defined, therefore th answer is 5a+b.