Set up a proportion. 6/10 = 9/x. cross multiply so x times 6 = 6x. And 10 times 9 = 90. so 6x=90. Then 90 and 6x divided by 6. which gets you x=15. The 9 ft tall elephant will cast a 15 ft shadow.
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Step-by-step explanation:
Total number of boxes of cookies that Kendal bought to bring to the party is x.
Each box contains 12 cookies. This means that total number of cookies in x boxes would be
12 × x = 12x
She decides to keep two boxes for herself. This means that the total number of cookies that she kept for herself would be
12 × 2 = 24 cookies
She brings 60 cookies to the party.
The equation that can be used to find the number of boxes, x, Kendal bought would be
12x = 24 + 60
12x = 84
x = 84/12 = 7 boxes
Since in 1990 there are 28%, we need to figure out when it gets to 31%. In addition, since it increases by 0.6% every year, we can say that 0.6x+28 (since 28 is the base value) is the percentage of babies born in wedlock every year. Therefore, to get 0.6x+28=31, we subtract 28 from both sides to get 0.6x=3
Dividing both sides by 0.6, we get x=5=the amount of years it takes to get 31% of babies born in wedlock. Since 1990 is the base value (we start from there!), we add 5 to that to get 1990+5=1995 as the yar
Answer: Y = 4x - 12
Step-by-step explanation:
Well, the reason for this is because y can be anything because there are 2 unknown terms in the equation. Thus, the answer to y can be many different answers. The one common thing that all of these answers have is that they have only 1 expression (An equation without equal sign) to solve it. This expression is the answer to y, but it can be changed judging by the answer of x. That is why you cannot determine an exact answer to y with there being many, so you have to write the expression to get y. Which you can find out by:
12 (Part) + y (Part) = 4x (Whole)
So to figure out one part do the whole minus the other part which is why 4x is our answer:
4x (Whole) - 12 (Other Part)
This is called part-whole postulate.
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