
Solution:
Given expression:

To solve the given expression:
First simplify: 

Cancel the common factor (w + 5).

Now substitute this in the given expression.

Multiply the fractions 

Factor the denominator 
Cancel the common factor 2(w – 5).

Factor the numerator 

Cancel the common factor (w – 2).


You have to FOIL out the (x+4)(x-4) and then subrtract away the 9 in order to get a quadratic that you can solve for x. As it is, you can't do it.

Now if you move the 9 over with it, you get this:

which simplifies to

Now you can either solve this by recognizing that is the difference of perfect squares, or you can move the 25 over to the other side and take the square root of both sides, like this:


Answer: The answers for question 3 are x = 5, y = 13, and z = 10.
Now for question #4. The answer for those are a = 6.40312, b = 6.70820, c = 9.43398, d = 5.29150, e = 4.89898, f = 7.54983.
You would solve all these problems by using this formula a^2 + b^2 = c^2 with a and b representing two of the legs and c representing the hypotenuse (the longest side.) Simply input the respective numbers for the appropriate variables and solve for the missing variable.
Now lastly question #5. We just need to solve for the diagonal length. The answers are as follows. 5.66, 7.07, and 9.9. You get these answers by using the formula for finding a diagonal in a square which is d=
2a
Answer: 8.1ft
Step-by-step explanation:
It may help to draw it out but for this question you would have to use pythagoras' theorem.
The formula for the shorter side is a²=c²-b²
The height of this triangle is 4ft (b) and the hypotenuse (the diagonal that stretches from the top to the bottom) is 9ft (c).
When we put the numbers in the formula you get a²=9²-4²
9²=81
4²=16
a²=81-16
a²=65
Then because we want to find a on it's own you would have to square root 65 which is 8.1 (to the nearest tenth)