The second one is your answer
The answer is 20 since 1/5 of 20 is 4, and 20 + 4 = 24.
B² = 8b + 84
b² - 8b - 84 = 0
b = <u>-(-8) +/- √((8)² - 4(1)(-84))</u>
2(1)<u>
</u>b = <u>8 +/- √(64 + 336)</u>
2
b = <u>8 +/- √(400)
</u> 2<u>
</u>b = <u>8 +/- 20
</u> 2
b = 4 <u>+</u> 10
b = 4 + 10 b = 4 - 10
b = 14 b = -6
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Answer:
The trestle meets ground level at 0.875 units and 9.125 units
Step-by-step explanation:
Poorly formatted question.
The given equation is:

Required
The point where the trestle gets to the ground level
To do this, we set 
So, we have:

Multiply through by -1

Solve using quadratic formula:

Where:

So, we have:




Solve the fraction

Split

