Answer:
Approximately : 135
Step-by-step explanation:
60sec x 3 = 180sec
45 x 3 = 135
I found that Joe has 28 red pepper plants and 8 green pepper plants.
to find this, I first set up a proportion:
7/2 = (20+x)/x
then you cross multiply giving you:
7x = 40 + 2x
Subtract 2x from both sides:
5x = 40
solve for x:
x = 8 (which is the amount of green pepper plants)
to find how many red pepper plants he has, plug in x for (20 + x) giving you 28 red pepper plants
Hope I helped :)
You can remove the first plus sign to give:
-1.3 -4.9 [ because + x - = - ]
and by the same rule you can remove the the second plus sign to give
-1.3 -4.9 - 2.6
That means option b is out because it is positive.
straight away we can see that option D. equals the result, so it is in the running, so now can we eliminate c and a?
we can eliminate a because the minus ign outside the bracket multiplied by -4.9 inside the bracket produces + 4.9, which is not the answer, so that only leaves c.
once again, a plus sign outside the bracket does not produce -4.9 when muliplied by 4.9 inside the bracket inside option c, so we can eliminate option c.
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Answer (D)

Any negative or positive number inside an absolute value will always come out positive.