Fred has $200 he wants to purchase a gym bag for $26 and as many pair of shoes as he can each pair of shoes is $45 what is the maximum number of pairs of shoes he can purchase in a addition to the gym bag?

How I got the answer.                                                                                            200-26=174

174÷45                                                    

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: