Jina's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Jina $4.35 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.80 per pound. This month's blend used twice as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $510.40. How many pounds of type A coffee were used? Number of pounds of type A coffee:

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answer:

x - 3

discussion:

x^2 - 9 = (x-3) (x+3)   so

(x^2-9)/ (x + 3) = x-3

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exa:

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3+11

14

step-by-step explanation:

from this example, we can see that subtracting with integers is the same as adding the opposite. we can solve using a number line or by using the saying "keep, change, change" to us solve. it is important to remember that we can subtract a negative and end up with a larger number than we started with.

no association

step-by-step explanation:

if you have eyes and you can use them efficiently you can see that it just looks like random dots like do a line of best fit and like they're so spread out it's such a weak association you might as well consider it nonexistent