1. the answer is 24. think of x as the original amount, and y as the new amount. y times 1.5 is x, and y+12 is x. reverse that to figure out y, which is what we need, and you have x/1.5 = y as well as x-12 = y. Use the equal values method and make an equation x/1.5=x-12. solve this equation to get x, which is 36. to figure out the new amount, y, you need to subtract 12, which would help you get 24 as your final answer.
2. once again, create an equation. let's call team 1 x and team 2 y. team one has 1/4th as many as team 2, so that would be x=1/4y. An easier way to write that is 4x=y. after 6 people quit team two, that would be y-6. after the transfer, that would be y-6-12, and x+12 for the teams. they are equal after these, so y-6-12=x+12. solve this equation to get y-18= x+12. if you recall earlier, y was 4 times x, so substitute that into y to get 4x-18=x+12. Solve the equation to get 10 people on team one originally. your final answer is 10 people.
Answer: 11:7
Step-by-step explanation:
Number of green colored pencils=11
Number of blue colored pencils= 7
Number of red colored pencils= 3
Total number of colored pencils= 11+7+3= 21
Ratio of green colored pencils to blue colored pencils= 11:7
Answer:
• x = -4, x = 0, x = 1
Step-by-step explanation:
x is a factor of all terms, so x=0 is a zero. (Eliminates choices 1 and 5.)
The sum of coefficients is 0, so x=1 is a zero. (Eliminates choices 3 and 4.)
Reversing the sign of the odd-degree terms gives signs of -++, so there is one sign change, hence one negative real root (by Descartes' rule of signs). This confirms choice 2 as the answer.
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Of course, your graphing calculator can answer this almost as quickly.
the answer is d not similar
Answer:
2/5
Step-by-step explanation:
First by looking, you have a slope going upward to the right so it is a positive slope.
Two points on the line that seem to go directly through the grid at the intersection points are ( -60, -90) and ( 40, -50).
Slope is Rise (y axis) over the Run (x axis). The numbers above have x first and y second.
So the rise is the total distance between -90 and -50 which is 40.
The run is the total distance between 40 and -60 which is a total of 100.
It takes 40 units to get back to the 0 mark on the x axis and the another 60 units to get to the -60 point.
So you slop is 40/100. You can simplify this down to 4/10 or even further to give you 2/5.
