Negative because if you take away from a negative, your just making it smaller... hope this helps!
Answer:
A is the Answer
Step-by-step explanation:
Since the population is being split up into 2 divisions out of 5,000.
This means District X and Y must add up 5000.

District X and Y must differ no more than 500 people.
So this means that X and Y total people difference cannot be over 500 people. So the equation for this is

A shows this so A is the answer.
Answer:
this would be B.
Step-by-step explanation:
it crosses the y axis at positive 3. so has to be +3. this leaves b and c, it is a negative slope so it is Y= -2x+3.
Answer:
3/4(x^2)
Step-by-step explanation:
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