One way you could solve this is to just multiply the top and bottom out so that you get 9/81, reducing it by 9/9 to get 1/9 or option C.
Another way would be to do
since dividing numbers with exponents would be subtracting the bottom exponent from the top exponent, provided that the base number (in this case 3) is the same for both. For this method, you would get
, which is equal to 1/9 or .1 repeating, the same answer that you'd get with the first method.
The correct answer is C) (5m^50 - 11n^8) (5m^50 + 11n^8)
We can tell this because of the rule regarding factoring the difference of two perfect squares. When we have two squares being multiplied, we can use the following rule.
a^2 - b^2 = (a - b)(a + b)
In this case, or first term is 25m^100. So we can solve that by setting it equal to a^2.
a^2 = 25m^100 -----> take the square root of both sides
a = 5m^50
Then we can do the same for the b term.
b^2 = 121n^16 ----->take the square root of both sides
b = 11n^8
Now we can use both in the equation already given
(a - b)(a + b)
(5m^50 - 11n^16)(5m^50 + 11n^16)
To grandparents house :
140/56 = 2.5 hours
Return trip :
140/50 = 2.8 hours
Total time : 2.8+2.5 = 5.3 hours
You need to tell how many percent you will discount and then find the new price
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