It’s A, -1/4 because at every square it goes down by a fourth
Answer:
A. 
B. 
cupcakes
Step-by-step explanation:
Part A:
The simplified form of the expression is
Part B:
Put 
in the above simplified equation to get the number of cupcakes Mrs. Jones bake last week
cupcakes
If I'm right it could be C. IF I'M RIGHT, I'm not totally sure but I hope this helps.
<span>The
associative rule is a rule about when it's safe to move parentheses
around. You can remember that because the parentheses determine which
expressions you have to do first--which numbers can associate with each
other. It looks like this:
For addition: (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
For multiplication: (ab)c = a(bc)
The commutative property is about which operations you can do backward
and forward. You can remember this by thinking of people commuting to
work: they go to work every morning, then they repeat the same operation
backward when they commute home. It looks like this:
For addition: a + b = b + a
For multiplication: ab = ba
Finally, the distributive property tells you what happens when you
distribute one operation against another kind in parentheses. It looks
like this:
a * (b + c) = ab + ac
In other words, the a is "distributed" over the b and c.
Of course, you can make these work together:
a * (b + (c + d))
= a * ((b + c) + d) (by the associative property)
= a * (d + (b + c)) (by the commutative property)
= ad + a (b + c) (by the distributive property)
= ad + ab + ac (by the distributive property again).
Hope this helps. </span>
