Would it help if you wrote it as
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Then you can cross multiply if you know how to do that.
1*x = (-11)(-3)
x = 33 but what happened to the 2 minus signs?
Remember that a ( - ) times a ( - ) = a plus. The two minus signs become a plus.
Number 8 is confusing
1 answer:
A landscaper is creating a rectangular flower bed such that the width is half of the length . the area of the flower bed is 34 square feet . write and solve the equation determine the width of the flower bed , to nearest tenth of floor .
Answer :
it says that width is half the length . which also implies that length is double the width . as we shift the 2 from denominator , it gets multiply on RHS
let the length be 2x
and
width be = x
length × breadth = 34
2x × x = 34
2x^2 = 34
x = width = 5.8309518948
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