Could you please put a picture of the text? But i’m pretty sure they had a big hurricane and because the city is basically bowl- shaped, the water couldn’t really get out. There was so much water coming in that the levees broke and that’s why there was so much flooding.
If AE is x+50 then the whole thing must be x=50, If a portion of that, CE, is x+32, then the rest of it, AC, must be x+18, because no matter what X is, 32+18=50.
