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1. 12*100 - 12*5
You would use the distributive property to get this equation (it is equivalent to the original one)
2. Um... There's no actual story for this problem; sorry I can't solve this problem
The period will be the length for one cycle of the function.
answer: 10
the answer to the equation is x=15