Mandy Increases her books by 2 per month.
Bill increases his books by 4 per month.
Month Mandy Bill
May 18 4
June 20 8
July 22 12
August 24 16
Sept 26 20
Oct 28 24
Nov 30 28
Dec 32 32
At the end of December they will have read the same amount of books.
Answer:
52
Step-by-step explanation:

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with
since we are to find
.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the exponents before whatever else we have here.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the multiplication as we see if left to right.)
(By the order of operations, we perform addition/subtraction as we see it left to right.)
(This completes the simplification.)
We could have also put this in our calculator as:
4(4)^2 - 2(4) - 4
This would have returned 52.
Answer:
16
−81
Step-by-step explanation:
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