It's going to be kind of crazy, but you need to use Pythagorean's Theorem for this. That will look like this:

. FOIL out the left side to get

. FOIL out the first of the 2 expressions on the right to get

, and the second of the 2 to get 4x. Our equation now looks like this:

. Combine like terms to get an equation that still has square roots in it that we have to deal with:

and

. We will square both sides to get rid of the square root sign.

. This is a polynomial now that can be factored to solve for x. Bring the 2x over by subtraction and set the polynomial equal to 0.

. Factor out an x, leaving us with x(x-2)=0. That means that x = 0 or x - 2 = 0 and x = 2. Of course if we are solving for the length of a side we know it can't have a side length of 0, so it must have a side length that is a multiple of 2. x = 2
Answer:
Slope = -3/4
y-intercept = 2
Step-by-step explanation:

Sold 2/5 in the morning.....leaving 3/5
he sold 3/4 of 3/5 in the afternoon......3/4 * 3/5 = 9/20
2/5 = 8/20
9/20 - 8/20 = 1/20...so he sold 1/20 more in the afternoon.
so if 1/20 = 24, then 20/20 = 24*20 = 480
so he started with 480 cartons
Answer: I subtracted 8 from both sides then divided 3 on both sides
Step-by-step explanation: welcome