You have a lot of questions here, I can help you with a few of them.
When you simplify the polynomials, you put together all of the terms that have the same degree. That means the variables have the same exponents. The number of terms are the items separated by plus and minus signs.
Here are the answers for the first three:
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3)
It depends on how long there arms are I think
Answer:
4
Step-by-step explanation:
4x+5+3x-2=31
7x+3=31
7x=28
x=4
It is $84.6. You multiply 1.6 by 13 which equals $20.8. Then you multiply 3.1 by 14 which equals $43.4. Then you multiply 1.2 by 17 which equals $20.4. Add them together and you get $84.6.
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Subtract 3x from
both sides: −2y = −3x + 16; divide
both sides by −2: y x = − 3
2 8.