The porter family used an online family budget estimator to compare the costs of living in baltimore and san francisco for a family with two parents and two children. where is the cost of living higher?

In a business perspective, we need to consider cost of living and rent index (considering they will rent in both cities) difference in response to net earnings. Per data in general, we can say that it would cost ~$5000+ to live in California and around $4000+ in Maryland. These values should be directly related to the indices difference of these underlying factors: consumer prices (CA is 4% lower than MD), consumer prices + rent (CA is 7% higher than MD), rent (CA is 28% higher than MD), restaurant (CA is 3% lower than MD), groceries (CA is 4% lower than MD), and local purchasing power is 10% higher in CA than MD.

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a4 - 3a2 - 1

step-by-step explanation:

step   1   :

equation at the end of step   1   :

  ((a4) -   3a2) -   1

step   2   :

trying to factor by splitting the middle term

2.1     factoring   a4-3a2-1  

the first term is,   a4   its coefficient is   1 .

the middle term is,   -3a2   its coefficient is   -3 .

the last term, "the constant", is   -1