Given that <span>Gary's unpaid credit card balance is $2543.32. His APR is 17.4% and he made one new transaction for $320. so his new balance can be solved by just adding the unpaid credit card balance and the new transaction he made.
new balance = </span><span> $ 2543.32 + $ 320
new balance = $ 2863.32</span>
The correct answer would be

In order to solve for this you must first get the equation equal to 0.
<span>x^2=-5x-3 ----> add 5x to both sides.
x^2 + 5x = -3 ----> add 3 to both sides.
x^2 + 5x + 3 = 0
Now knowing this we can use the coefficients of each one in descending order of power as a, b and c.
a = 1 (because it is the coefficient to x^2)
b = 5</span> (because it is the coefficient to x)
c = 3 (because it is the end number)
Now we can plug these values into the quadratic equation.



And those would be your two answers.
If you switch it around, it'll be: 1,707 - 264
Subtract:
1,707 - 264 = 1443
Answer = 1,443
~Hope this helped~
Hi! for x, you need to do 2x-8 = x+17 and solve, because since b is the midpoint, ab and bc would be congruent.
2x-8 = x+17
1x-8 = 17
1x = 25
x = 25
in order to find ab, you plug in the x into the expression.
ab = 2x-8
ab = 2(25)-8
ab = 42
do the same for bc:
bc = x + 17
bc = 25 + 17
bc = 42
and for ac, combine the two expressions and plug in the value for x.
ac = ab + bc
ac = 2x-8 + x+17
ac = 2(25)-8 + 25+17
ac = 84
i hope this helped! have a good day/night :)