Answer:
The brother is 36 years old.
Step-by-step explanation:
b = brothers age
b - 18 = 18 | Given
b = 36 | Add 18 to both sides to cancel out -18 and get his age.
Yes! 5.8 is a rational number
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Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Let g and b represent the numbers of candy canes the girl and boy have, respectively.
g -1 = b +1 . . . . . . girl gives to boy, they're equal
g +1 = 2(b -1) . . . . boy gives to girl; she has double
Adding 1 to the first equation gives an expression for g that can be substituted into the second equation.
g = b +2
(b +2) +1 = 2b -2
5 = b . . . . . . . . . . add 2-b, simplify
g = 5+2 = 7 . . . . . find g
The girl has 7 candy canes; the boy has 5.
If there is only one solution, at x=-3, then the factor of (x+3) must be repeated. The equation must be equivalent to
... (x +3)² = 0
This multiplies out to give
... x² +6x +9 = 0
The value of m is 6.
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For finding the square of a binomial, you can either use the special form you have memorized:
... (x +a)² + x² +2ax + a²
or you can use the distributive property.
... (x +a)² = x(x +a) +a(x +a)
... = x² +ax +ax +a² = x² +2ax +a²
Step-by-step explanation: