Given parallelogram ABCD , diagonals AC and BD intersect at point E. AE=2x, BE=y+10, CE=x+2 and DE=4y−8 . Find the length of AC
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Answer:
5 times as large
Step-by-step explanation:
You can think of "10^5" as "green marbles" if you like. Then your question is ...
5 green marbles is how many times as large as 1 green marble.
Hopefully, the answer is all too clear: it is 5 times as large.
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In math terms, when you want to know how many times as large y is as x, the answer is found by dividing y by x:
y/x . . . . . tells you how many times as large as x is y.
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