The top of a ladder is leaning on a building at a point 12 feet above the ground.The bottom of the ladder is 5 feet from the bas
e of the building. What is the length of the ladder?
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Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share. The algebraic expression is
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Given, Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share with a book club.
Each box contains 12 cookies.
So, in total we have 3 x 12 cookies = 36 cookies.
Now, we have to find how many cookies can each person p will get.
Let, the total number of persons be x.
Then, after equally sharing the cookies,
Hence, the algebraic expression is
We have to add 8/15 to 2/5.
To add two fractions we have to make them have the same denominator, so we have to convert 2/5 to have a denominator of 15. To do this, we have to multiply 2/5 by 3 and then we can add the fractions:
Answer: 14/15