Answer:
9 pieces
Step-by-step explanation:
28 inches rope cut into 3-inch pieces
There is no matching answer choice, if given numbers are correct then the answer is 9 full pieces
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<u>Note:</u>
- The close answer choice is 8
- 28/8 = 3 1/2 or 3.5
- So if cut into 3.5 inch pieces then it is 8 full pieces
- just in case it was typo 3 instead of 3.5
-7 to make 4 so -4x=4 x=-1
The answer is x=-1
Hope this helps:)
Let length of rectangle=x and width be y
.`. area=x*y
now new length=x+12x/10=22x/10
width=y-y/5=4y/5
now .....
new area=new length-new width=22x/10*4y/5
new area=88xy/50
Write the 2 equations:
5x-2y=18
-5x+3y=-22
You can see that the coefficients of x are opposites, so you can add them(the 2 equations) to eliminate x.
Adding them, you get:
y=-3
So now that you know y, you can substitute the value of y into one of the original equations. Let's substitute it in the first one:
5x+6=18
Solving this, we get:
5x=12
x=12/5
x=12/5, y=-3