Use the completing the square method to transform the equation x^2 + 2x =13 into an equation of the form (x + a)^2 = b where a and b are real numbers. What are the values of a and b?

The first five terms of a linear sequence are given below. 7 , 12 , 17, 22 , 27 , what is the next term of the sequence?

Jessica and martha each have a bag of cookies with unequal quantities. they have 30 cookies total between the two of them. each of them ate 6 cookies from their bag. the product of the number of cookies left in each bag is not more than 80. how many more cookies will jessica have martha? if x represents the number of cookies jessica started with, complete the statements below. the inequality that describes the relationship between the number of cookies each one of them has is x^2 - x +224 > = 0.jessica has at least cookies more than martha.

If the measure of angle 1 is 110 degrees and the measure of angle 3 is (2 x+10 degree), what is the value of x?