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The capulet and montague families love writing. last year, each capulet wrote 444 essays, each montague wrote 666 essays, and both families wrote 100100100 essays in total. this year, each capulet wrote 888 essays, each montague wrote 121212 essays, and both families wrote 200200200 essays in total. how many capulets and montagues are there? choose 1

The scatter plot graph shows the average annual income for a certain profession based on the number of years of experience which of the following is most likely to be the equation of the trend line for this set of data? a. i=5350e +37100 b. i=5350e-37100 c. i=5350e d. e=5350e+37100

[10 points, algebra 2-simplifying complex fractions]according to my answer key the restrictions are -1 and 4. but why not positive 1?