1. Divide both sides by 2
2. Add 16 to each side
Answer x > -2
Just replace a with 4 and b with 2 and your equation looks like
3.14 (4×2+4×2)
solve within the parenthesis first
3.14 (8+8)
3.14 (16) =50.24
If the total amount of points in a test is 140, and we want to find 10% of those points, we can do the following to figure out how much points the question is worth...
140 points x 10% = 140 x 0.1 = 14 points for the short-answer quesion.
