A student is given three triangles and must determine which triangles are congruent. The student is also told that B= ZE = ZY. Which of the
following statements is true?

D.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the given triangles above, there are just 2 triangles that look the same, that is ∆ABC and ∆XYZ.

∆ABC has two sides (AB and BC), and an included angle (angle B), which are equal to the two sides (YZ and YX) and the included angle (angle Y) of ∆XYZ as ∆ABC is a reflection of ∆XYZ.

Therefore, according to the SAS Theorem of congruency, ∆ABC is congruent to ∆XYZ.

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

option d

take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: