The answer to ( 1+7 )•3/6 is 4 and (7•3)•2/6 is 7
The value of 3ab+5b-5 is 18
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Answer:
20 square units
Step-by-step explanation:
The area is given by the formula ...
A = bh
where b is the base of the parallelogram, and h is the perpendicular distance between the parallel bases. Using the numbers from the figure, we have ...
A = 5·4 = 20 . . . . square units
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<em>Additional comment</em>
You will notice this is the same formula as is used for a rectangle. You can consider the parallelogram to have the same area as a rectangle of these dimensions if you look at what happens when you cut the right triangle from the right end and add it to the left end. The result is a rectangle 5 units wide and 4 units high.
The same formula applies even if the skew is so great that the bases do not overlap. (That much skew would not result in a triangle of the kind shown in this diagram.)
To factor x^2 + 2x - 8 follow these steps
1) Write to factors, with x as the first term, this way:
(x )(x )
2) The sign to the right of the x in the first factor is the same sign of the coeficient of x in the polynomial.
That is +.
The sign to the right of the x of the second factor is the product of the sign of the coefficent of x (this is +) and the sign of the independent term (this is - ).
So that is (+).(-) + -.
Now the two factors have this form:
(x + ) (x - )
3) Now find two numbers whose product is - 8 and whose difference is +2
Those numbers are + 4 and -2.
Then the two factors are:
(x + 4) (x - 2).
So the answer if that the correct factorization is (x + 4) (x - 2)
