When you line the object up against the ruler you are measuring it's side, if you put it on the one instead of the zero then you're making the object one inch longer, so you'd have to subtract the one in the end
well, clearly the LCD from the denominators of 5 and 10 is just 10, thus

Solving is :
X=2
Y=1
Step by step
(2x-3) + 5 = 3x
2x+2=3x
X=2
Substitute x by 2
Y=1
$4 - $2.50 = $1.50 profit for each seat sold
$300 profit when sold out / $1.50 per seat
= 200 seat cushions made
This is easy just find out what 5^2 equals which will be 5x5=25 (when dealing with a squared number you will always times it by itself. so if you had 10^2 it would be 100.) so now that we know 5^2 is 25 we then can add the 20 which gets 25+20=45! Hope this helps!