Answer:
Second option. "Sue wants to cover the lid of a box with paper. How much paper should she buy?"
Explanation:
The first option relies upon volume.
The last two options relies on side lengths.
The second option is relies on area because you have to calculate the area of the lid to know how much paper can be used to cover it.
Real numbers are all the rational numbers such as -7 and 4/3 and all irrational numbers.
Answer:
Brooke has 9 problems for social studies.
Step-by-step explanation:
I used addition. I did 15 + 5 = 20. and after that I just knew that you have to add 9 to 20 to get 29, so I figured out that she has 9 social studies problems.
Answer:
24
Step-by-step explanation:
6*4
9514 1404 393
Answer:
- 100 pounds Earl Grey
- 300 pounds Orange Pekoe
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the number of pounds of Earl Gray tea in the mix. Then the total cost of the mix is ...
6x +4(400-x)=4.50(400)
2x +1600 = 1800 . . . . . . . simplify
2x = 200 . . . . . . . . . . . subtract 1600
x = 100 . . . . . . . . . . . divide by 2. Pounds of Earl Grey
(400 -x) = 300 . . . . . Pounds of Orange Pekoe
The blend should have 100 pounds of Earl Grey and 300 pounds of Orange Pekoe.
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<em>Additional comment</em>
It is easy to show that the relationship between the quantities of high-cost (H) and low-cost (L) items in the mix (M) is ...
fraction of mix that is H is (M -L)/(H -L)
Here, we have H=6, L=4, M=4.5, so the fraction of the mix that is Earl Grey is ...
(4.5 -4)/(6 -4) = 0.5/2 = 0.25
There are 400 pounds of mix, so 0.25(400) = 100 pounds is Earl Grey.
The solution above is essentially 2-step, so using this relation doesn't necessarily save any steps. It just makes it possible to solve the problem in your head.