Answer: i took the test and the answer was
-5
Step-by-step explanation: Good luck!
15x - 10 where x is equal to the number of weeks would respresent the situation above. This is because he gains 15 cards every week and gave ten cards to James once.
If it has only been one week, the expression will be 15 - 10 because 15 × 1 = 15.
I hope this helps!
Step-by-step explanation:
We are picking 6 numbers from the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Since we care about numbers being next to each other, we might think of the 10 numbers as being distributed in 5 boxes (which you can think of as the holes):
| 1 2 | 3 4 | 5 6 | 7 8 | 9 10 |
So on the first box we have the numbers 1 and 2, on the second box we have the numbers 3 and 4, and so on. Since we are picking 6 numbers from those 10 numbers, that means we'll have to pick 6 boxes (and inside each box we pick a number), but we only have 5 available boxes, so by the pigeonhole principle, we'll have to pick 1 same box at least two times. Since on each picked box we'll need to pick a number, on this box which was picked two times, we will have to pick both of its numbers. And so those 2 numbers inside that box will be next to each other (meaning they're consecutive numbers).