<h2>
Answer:</h2>
To solve this system, we will use the graphing method.
Based on the graph shown below, we can conclude that this system has infinite solutions, because they are the same line.
Answer:
There are 35 adult dogs and 20 puppies
<em></em>
Step-by-step explanation:
<em>Represent the puppies with P and the Adult dogs with A</em>
Given
Dogs = 55
Required
Determine A and P
First, we need to sum the ratios;
Adult Dogs is then calculated as follows;
Puppies is calculated by subtracting the number of adult dogs from the total
<em>Hence;</em>
<em>There are 35 adult dogs and 20 puppies</em>
You have not given us any of the steps that Ricardo took to simplify the
expression, and you also haven't given us the list of choices that includes
the description of his mistake, so you're batting O for two so far.
Other than those minor details, the question is intriguing, and it certainly
draws me in.
If Ricardo made a mistake in simplifying that expression, I'm going to say that
it was most likely in the process of removing the parentheses in the middle.
Now you understand that this is all guess-work, because of all the stuff that you
left out when you copied the question, but I think he probably forgot that the 3x
operates on everything inside the parentheses.
He probably wrote that 3x (x-3) is
either 3x² - 3
or x - 9x .
In reality, when properly simplified,
3x (x - 3) = 3x² - 9x .
