Answer:
9
Step-by-step explanation:
You gave the answer right in your question
The thief originally stole 64 plants.
<h3>What is arithmetic?</h3>
In mathematics, it deals with numbers of operations according to the statements.
Here,
Let the number of plants originally stolen by the thief be x.
On the way out, the thief meets three security guards, one after another. To each security guard, the thief is forced to give one-half of the plants that he still had, plus 2 more.
Here,
For gourd 1 the planet is given = 1/2 x
For gourd 2 the planet is given = 1/2 * 1/2 x = 1/4 x
For gourd 3 the planet is given = 1/2*1/4 x = 1/8 x
Total plant given to the gourds = 1/2x +1/4x +1/8x + 2 = 7/x/8x +2
Finally, the thief leaves the nursery with 10 plants
x - 7x/8 + 2 = 10
x/8 = 8
x = 64
Thus, the thief stole 64 plants.
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Answer:
Step-by-step explanations:
10x - 2x
8x
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Begin with substuting the x variable with -2, we do this because the question has listed the value of x already.
Using the value of x, -2 we determine g(x).
g(x) = -2^2 + 2
Above is what the equation would look as, after you input the value of -2.
Using pemdas, (parantheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) solve the equation.
-2^2 = 4
Think of it as -2 * -2, which is why -2^2 is 4.
Add 4 +2.
4 + 2 = 6.
Therefore, the value of g(x) = 6
Answer:
9 gallons of water per minute
Step-by-step explanation:
First identify what you know:
1) The pipe was flowing water for eight minutes.
2) In that eight minutes, 72 gallons of water came out.
So, if 72 gallons of water came out in eight minutes, how many gallons flowed out in a single minute? Well, assuming that the flow rate was consistent, then simply divide the total number of gallons that flowed out, by the number of minutes the pipe was open!
72/8 = 9
The pipe released 9 gallons of water per minute, thus resulting in 72 gallons of water in 8 minutes!
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