E=1 because you would subtract 9 from both sides since it's on the side with the variable. The nines would cancel eachother out so you would have e on the left side then 10-9=1 so it would be e=1
Answer:
(a) x + 3(x + 4) = 5(x + 2) - 5
(b) youngest: 7 years old
middle: 9 years old
oldest: 11 years old
Step-by-step explanation:
(a)
We know that x is the youngest child's age. Since the sisters' ages are consecutive odd integers, we know that the ages differ by 2. So, the middle sister's age is x + 2 and the oldest sister's age is x + 4.
Our equation to model the sentence "the sum of the age of the youngest and three times the age of the oldest is five less than five times the middle sister's age" would be:
x + 3 * (x + 4) = 5 * (x + 2) - 5
x + 3(x + 4) = 5(x + 2) - 5
(b)
Now, we can just solve the equation above:
x + 3(x + 4) = 5(x + 2) - 5
x + 3x + 12 = 5x + 10 - 5
4x + 12 = 5x + 5
x = 12 - 5 = 7
So, the youngest sister is 7 years old.
That means the middle sister is 7 + 2 = 9 years old, and the oldest sister is 9 + 2 = 11 years old.
The ages, then, are:
youngest: 7 years old
middle: 9 years old
oldest: 11 years old
X=750+125.75x
subtract to variable (x) on one side
x-125.75x=750+125.75x-125.75x
-124.75x=750
divide -124.75 to get variable (x) by itself
-124.75x/-124.75=750/-124.75
x=-3000/499
or
x=-6 6/499
or
x=-6.01202
Answer:
-1
Step-by-step explanation:
