Answer: Choice A) 15 feet
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x = length of fourth side in quadrilateral ABCD
Have a look at the attached image I've posted. I made a chart that lines up the side lengths from largest to smallest. Note how the first two items in the bottom row are blank. We don't know these values and we don't need to find out in order to find x.
Based on the last two columns of that table, we can form the proportion below, which is then used to isolate x.
30/12 = x/6
30*6 = 12*x ... cross multiply
180 = 12*x
12*x = 180
x = 180/12 ... divide both sides by 12
x = 15
Answer:
Graphing
Step-by-step explanation:
1) You can graph this equation by using y=mx+b. You can replace that equation with y=3x-1.
M=3
X=x
B=-1
On a graph you would down 1 since it's negative and make a point. Then you would put a 1 under the 3 to make it a fraction. 3/1. Then you would divide 1 by 3 (1 ÷ 3). Then you would go to the right 0.33 because it's positive, and the up 1. Then you would make a second point.
This would only give you one line which wouldn't give you an intersection.
So... hmm bear in mind, when the boat goes upstream, it goes against the stream, so, if the boat has speed rate of say "b", and the stream has a rate of "r", then the speed going up is b - r, the boat's rate minus the streams, because the stream is subtracting speed as it goes up
going downstream is a bit different, the stream speed is "added" to boat's
so the boat is really going faster, is going b + r
notice, the distance is the same, upstream as well as downstream
thus
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solve for "r", to see what the stream's rate is
what about the boat's? well, just plug the value for "r" on either equation and solve for "b"
