Answer:
The shortest whole number height that will hold the fishing pole is 5 feet.
Step-by-step explanation:
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The page numbers are 10 and 11
Only 3 and 9 are both the subset of odd numbers and the subset of multiples of 3.
4*d^(-3)*d^18 = 4*d^(18-3) = 4*d^(15). The trick here is to combine the exponents.
Another way to write this problem would be:
4*d^18
---------- . Here d^18 divided by d^3 results in d^15, so again the final
d^3 answer is 4*d^15.