The median is the middle number
Answer: I cannot see the answer choices, so there is nothing to go by to answer this question.
Step-by-step explanation:
What I can tell you is that a line being parallel to another line would look like this: \\.
Two lines close to each other and that look identical are parallel.
Parallel lines never intersect each other, for that would make them perpendicular to each other.
In equation form, two lines can be found parallel to each other if they have the same slope. Often times they differ in y-intercepts, but they are still parallel.
Since you are solving for a, you want to have a on one side of the equation and the other terms on another side of the equation. It would be easiest to have all the terms with a on the left side of the equation, so that is what we will do.
Subtract 9a from both sides to get a on the left side of the equation.
5 + 5a = -5
Subtract 5 from both sides of the equation to isolate the term with a.
5a = -10
Divide both sides of the equation by 5 to solve for a.
a = -2
Answer:
The smallest number is 14
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