Answer:
1st one, x=-1
2nd on, y=2
Step-by-step explanation:
A) 40
b) 3
c) 5
Hope this helps
Two negatives <em>do not </em>equal a positive when adding. If you're in debt and you add more debt, does that get you out of debt?
Two negatives <em>do </em>equal a positive when you're multiplying them together though. This makes sense if you imagine multiplication as squishing or stretching a particular number on the number line. For example, imagine multiplying 2 x 1/2 as <em>squishing </em>the number 2 two times closer to 0. When you multiply 2 by a negative number, say, -1, you squish it so far down that you <em>flip it to the negative side of the number line</em>, bringing it to -2. You can imagine a similar thing happening if you multiply a number like -4 by -2. You squish -4 down to zero, and then <em>flip it to the positive side</em> and stretch it by a factor of 2, bringing it to 8.
Answer:
46/3
Step-by-step explanation:
|2a| - b/3
Plug in the values and evaluate.
|2(7)| - (-4)/3
|14| + 4/3
Apply | a | = a
14 + 4/3
42/3 + 4/3
= 46/3
