What is the square root of 29,

Some students are trying to write an expression with fewer terms that is equivalent to 8 - 3(4 - 9x). Noah says, "I worked the p

Irina-Kira [14]

Answer: Yes I agree with Jada. His approach is correct.

Step-by-step explanation: The question requires the student to write an equivalent equation with fewer terms. Nonetheless, this does not prevent applying a mathematically correct approach.

(1) Noah is wrong and the reason is that the initial step is mathematically incorrect. The expression on the right hand side reads 3(4 - 9x), therefore starting with "8 - 3" is very wrong. The right step was to take one side which is 8 and take the other side which is 3(4 - 9x).

(2) Lin is wrong and the reason is that she started inside the parenthesis and this also is mathematically incorrect. The digits inside the parenthesis are "not like terms" and hence calculating 4 - 9x = -5x is very incorrect (the same way you cannot correctly calculate 500 metres minus 200 inches. You must make sure they are both in meters or in inches, that is both must be like terms).

(3) Jada is very correct in using the distributive property and ended up with the only correct solution. The digits on the right hand side of the expression was solved first and that resulted in -12 + 27x. The reason being that the number outside the parenthesis which is -3, multiplied both digits inside the parenthesis. The minus sign had a major effect, and after simplifying the right hand side the expression now becomes;

8 - 12 + 27x

Since the like terms are 8 and 12, you can simplify further to become

- 4 + 27x OR the expression can be rearranged as 27x - 4

(4) Andre is not correct and the reason is that although he used the distributive property, he made a slight mistake while solving for the right side of the expression. What Andre did was

-3(4 - 9x)

-12 - 27x

Remember that when a negative value multiplies another negative value the answer is positive. Therefore -3 times -9x should have been +27x, just like Jada did as shown above.

From that point onward, his answer would be incorrect.

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3 years ago

A stray dog ate 10 of your muffins. That was 5/6 of all of them! How many are left?

Finger [1]

Answer:

12

Step-by-step explanation:

you first make an equation of 5/6x = 10, then divide 5/6 on both sides to get x = 12

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3 years ago

What is the difference between 9 thirty sevens and 8 thirty sevens

mojhsa [17]

From what I think of this question, i think of 9x37 and 8x37 OR 9/37 and 8/37. either way 8x37=296 9x37=333 9/37=0.2432 8/37=0.2162

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3 years ago

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A parking lot covers 32,420 square feet .what id its area to the nearest thousand feet

Mademuasel [1]

Answer: 32,000

Step-by-step explanation:

the thousands place (1000) is the fourth number to the left of the decimal, so round that one either up or down based on the number just one spot closer to the decimal, in this case, the hundreds place (100).

so we have 32,420

we can ignore the numbers that are going to become zeros as a result of the rounding . .

32,400

let's round 32,XXX either up or down based on the value in the hundreds place. if that value is 5 or greater, than we round up. if it is less than 5, than we round down.

4 is in the hundreds place, so we round down

32,000 is the answer

Hope this helps!!! Good luck!!! ;)

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3 years ago

13. The least common multiple of two non-zero integers a and b is the unique positive integer m such that (i) m is a common mult

Vlad [161]

Answer:

[a,b] divides n

Step-by-step explanation:

Let us denote the least common multiple of a and b [a,b]=m.

We want to prove that m divides n, where n is a multiple of a and b.

We suppose m does not divide n, then by the Division Theorem, there exists q and r integers such that:

(1) ... n=mq+r, where 0<r<m

As n is a multiple of a and b, there exists s and t integers such that:

sa=n and tb=n

Same thing happens to m as it is the least common multiple, there exists u and v such that:

ua=m and vb=m

So (1) has the following form:

n=mq+r ⇒ sa=uaq+r ⇒sa-uaq=r⇒(s-uq)a=r and

n=mq+r ⇒ tb=vbq+r ⇒ tb-vbq=r⇒ (t-vq)b=r

So r is a multiple of a and b, but r<m which is a contradiction as, m is the least common multiple of a and b. So this concludes the proof.

So this means that $\frac{ab}{m}$ is and integer.

As m= vb, then $\frac{m}{b}$ is an integer, lets say $\frac{m}{b}$ =v; and as m=ua, then $\frac{m}{a}$ =u.

So $\frac{ab}{m}$ v= $\frac{ab}{m}$ $\frac{m}{b}$ =a, so $\frac{ab}{m}$ divides a; on the other hand, $\frac{ab}{m}$ u= $\frac{ab}{m}$ $\frac{m}{a}$ =b, so $\frac{ab}{m}$ divides b. From this we can conclude that $\frac{ab}{m}$ is a common divisor of a and b.

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3 years ago