Answer:
5/6 OR 0.83 (with the three repeating)
Hope that helps!
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the length of maria's book be a and that of Brandon's be b.
So, by the question,
the difference in length of books is 56
i.e. a-b=56------(1)
and the length of books all together is 348
i.e. a+b=348------(2)
Adding (1) and (2);
(a-b)+(a+b)=56+348
or, a-b+a+b=404
or, 2a=404
or, a=202
substitutting the value of a in (2),
202+b=348
or, b=146
therefore, the length of Maria's book is 202
and the length of Brandon's book is 146.
Factorize the quadratic.
We have 
, so
Now, both 
and 
(since the absolute value of any number cannot be negative), so we just need to worry about when the left side is exactly zero. This happens for
So the solution to the inequality is the set
The lowest integer will be ''x''
