5c - 4 - 2c + 1 = 8c + 2....combine like terms on the left side
3c - 3 = 8c + 2
3c - 8c = 2 + 3
-5c = 5
c = -5/5
c = -1 <===
2.25X5= 11.25
2 1/4 turns into 2.25 as a decimal, and a pentagon has 5 equal sides, so you take 2.25 and multiply it by 5 to get your answer
11.25ft
That is English not Math
And this question depends on the story of the lesson.
So the ceiling takes 5/6 gallon to paint. We know that you already have 1/30 gallon and another gallon in addition to that. We must convert the 5/6 into ?/30 so we can see how much we need to use. So if we convert 5/6 to out of 30, we get 25/30. So the first can has 1/30 gallon so we subtract that amount from the total paint needed. So now we only need 24/30 gallon to paint the ceiling. If we subtract that amount needed from the full (30/30) can we have left, that will give us the remaining amount of paint we have left. 30/30-24/30= 6/30. This reduces to 1/5. So there is 1/5 gallon of paint left over after painting the ceiling.