Hello!
To do this we need to combine like terms, meaning combine the terms that have the same variables.
b is one variable that can be combined:
-2b - 6 + 3b - 2
b - 6 - 2
Now, combine the digits:
b - 8
Hope this helped!
There are 40 cats in the ecosystem.
You set 1/5 equal to x/200. Then you cross multiply the fractions to get 5x=200. You divide both terms by 5 to get x, which equals 40.
For this case we have the following equation:

Rewriting we have:

Dividing by 2 to both sides of the equation:

We apply the quadratic formula:

We have to:

Substituting:

Thus, we have two roots:

ANswer:

0.31777777777. I am pretty sure. I used my calculator