Dimple volunteered 32 hours last month at a local animal shelter. This is 20% of the total hours that she has volunteered this year. How many hours did she volunteer this year?

If she was to volunteer 32 hours and it is worth 20%, then that means 32 hours is 1/5 of her yearly hours. If you were to multiply her volunteer hours by five, then you are getting the year number of hours she has volunteered.

32 x 5 = 160

So, she volunteers 160 hours this year.

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answer:

(7 x + 6 y) (49 x^2 - 42 x y + 36 y^2)

discussion:

the trick is to recognize that 343 = 7^3 and 216 = 6^3 and, in general,

a^3 + b^3 =   (a + b) (a^2 - a b + b^2).

in our case

343x^3+216y^3   =   (7x)^3 + (6y)^3

so take a = 7x and b = 6y in the above equation to get the answer.

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