Expand out, this literally just wants you to multiply everything by -1.
so 7*-1 = -7
-c*-1 = c
thus putting them together to get -7+c which is just c-7
The answer to this problem is -5x=8
3/5 * 230 = 138 votes for Nyemi
3/10 * 230 = 69 votes for Luke
1/10 * 230 = 23 votes for Natalie
***************** DOUBLE-CHECK ****************
138 + 69 + 23 = 230 Correct!!
Answer step-by-step explanation:
We know that the critical t value for a 98% confidence level for a sample of size n = 18:
Finding degrees of freedom (n-1) = 17
-search the information in table t for 0.98 and find that t = 2.567
35000, rounding down from five.