A designer plans to create a new pattern of stitching a triangular piece of fabric shown in the figure above. She will stitch fa
bric in a straight line from the vertices of the triangle to the circumcenter of the triangle, located at point C, and then stitch an additional line of fabric back from the circumcenter to each vertex. How much fabric, in inches, will she need in total to create the design? (Note: Answer should be a whole number.)
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Expressions can be represented as equations, and vice versa.
A possible situation is as follows:
<em>John is 15 years old, and his age is 3 more than 5 times his brother's age</em>
The equation is given as:
This means that:
- 15 represents John's age
- P represents his brother's age
- 5 and 3 are the constants that relate their ages
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The final result is: 20x^3 + 62x^2 + 8x - 64.