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the best way to solve this is to have graph paper, so your numbers and points align. I have a model attached. the first point is hours slept 8. so on your graph go to 8 then across to 83, which is the test score. make a mark to represent this point. do this for all and it will create a line
Taylor and her 3 friends.....so there is 4 people
total paid was 18.20
so the cost for each one of them is : 18.20/4 = 4.55 <== per person
The subtraction sign in front of the second set of parenthesis changes the signs on the terms inside those parenthesis. So this could be rewritten as

. None of the exponents on the x are the same, so we will just express it in terms of descending powers of x.

. This is also the same as

if you don't like to start with a negative. Either one is correct.
1/3*4= 4/12
3/4*3= 9/12
Answer is 4/12 and 9/12.