10+5=5+10
They both ate the same amount of food.
Commutative Property of Addition is used.
Set up an equation and solve:
2x-14=52
2x=66
x=33
sydney is 33 and devaughn is 19
What is the weight of the cow?
what else? ................
QUESTION 1
We want to solve,

We factor the denominator of the fraction on the right hand side to get,

This implies


We multiply through by LCM of


We expand to get,

We group like terms and equate everything to zero,

We split the middle term,

We factor to get,





But

is not in the domain of the given equation.
It is an extraneous solution.

is the only solution.
QUESTION 2

We add x to both sides,

We square both sides,

We expand to get,

This implies,

We solve this quadratic equation by factorization,





But

is an extraneous solution