This is just an algebraic problem, the correct option is:
<em>"Myra should have multiplied 4.5 and 2.1 first."</em>
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How to evaluate an expression?</h3>
Here we want to evaluate the expression:
-31.7 + 4.5*x
in x = 2.1
This just means that we need to replace x by 2.1 in the given equation.
Now, what Myra does is:
-31.7 + 4.5*2.1 = -27.2*2.1
So she took the sum between -31.7 and 4.5 first, this is her mistake, you only would do that if the expression was:
(-31.7 + 4.5)*2.1
But in our expression:
-31.7 + 4.5*2.1
The first thing you need to solve is the product in the second term, so we get:
-31.7 + 4.5*2.1 = -31.7 + 9.45 = -22.25
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Answer:
5x=25
Step-by-step explanation:
if you need the answer
5x5=25
5+5+5+5+5=25
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Answer:
a) (x +2)(x +3)
b) x = -2 or -3
Step-by-step explanation:
a) The constants in the binomial factors will be divisors of 6 that have a sum of 5. You know that ...
6 = 1×6 = 2×3
The sums of these factor pairs are 7 and 5. You want the pair 2, 3. The factors are ...
x² +5x +6 = (x +2)(x +3)
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b) The solutions to the equation are the values of x that make the factors zero:
(x +2) = 0 ⇒ x = -2
(x +3) = 0 ⇒ x = -3
The short answer is that algebra doesn't work that way. You wouldn't divide *everything* by 2, but every term that contains a factor of 2.
In the expression
2 (6<em>x</em> - 1) + 2 (2<em>x</em> + 5)
both terms have a factor of 2 (the 2 out in front of them). They're the ones that get canceled when dividing by 2:
(2 (6<em>x</em> - 1) + 2 (2<em>x</em> + 5)) / 2 = 2/2 (6<em>x</em> - 1) + 2/2 (2<em>x</em> - 5)
… = 1 (6<em>x</em> - 1) + 1 (2<em>x</em> - 5)
… = (6<em>x</em> - 1) + (2<em>x</em> - 5)
and so on.
Looking ahead, it turns out that the equation is solved by <em>x</em> = 7. This makes 6<em>x</em> - 1 = 41 and 2<em>x</em> + 5 = 19. So the equation is saying that, if you make these replacements,
2×41 + 2×19 = 120
If you divide *everything* on the left by 2, you end up with fractions:
(2/2)×(41/2) + (2/2)×(19/2) = 41/2 + 19/2
but 41 + 19 = 60, so the end result would be 30, but that's not the same as 120/2 = 60.
