What you know:
Mr. Adams spent $36.25 on 12.5 pounds.
All you do to find the cost per each pound is:
36.25/12.5
Your answer:
$2.9 dollars per pound.
The first one (2-x^3) is the correct one
The given matrix equation is,
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Multiplying the matrices with the scalars, the given equation becomes,
![\left[\begin{array}{cc}1.5x&9\\12&6\end{array}\right] +\left[\begin{array}{cc}y&4y\\3y&2y\end{array}\right] =\left[\begin{array}{cc}z&z\\6z&2\end{array}\right] \\](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Bcc%7D1.5x%269%5C%5C12%266%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cright%5D%20%2B%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Bcc%7Dy%264y%5C%5C3y%262y%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cright%5D%20%3D%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Bcc%7Dz%26z%5C%5C6z%262%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cright%5D%20%20%5C%5C%20%20)
Adding the matrices,
![\left[\begin{array}{cc}1.5x+y&9+4y\\12+3y&6+2y\end{array}\right] =\left[\begin{array}{cc}z&z\\6z&2\end{array}\right] \\](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%20%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Bcc%7D1.5x%2By%269%2B4y%5C%5C12%2B3y%266%2B2y%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cright%5D%20%20%3D%5Cleft%5B%5Cbegin%7Barray%7D%7Bcc%7Dz%26z%5C%5C6z%262%5Cend%7Barray%7D%5Cright%5D%20%20%5C%5C%20)
Matrix equality gives,

Solving the equations together,

We can see that the equations are not consistent.
There is no solution.
√((25x^9y^3)/(64x^6y^11)) doing the normal division within the radical
√((25x^3)/(64y^8) then looking at the squares within the radical...
√((5^2*x^2*x)/(8^2*y^8)) now we can move out the perfect squares...
(5x/(8y^4))√x
So it is the bottom answer...