John claims that he can get the same answer to the problem below by adding up (begin with 6+8) or by adding down (begin with 9+8). He wants to know why and if this works all the time. How do you respond?

Turner's mom measured his room to see how long the wallpaper border needed to be. if two walls are 15 feet long and two walls are 12 feet long, how long should the strip of border be cut?

You are making a blueprint of your bedroom and you plan to use a scale factor of 18 . the actual width of your room is 14 feet and the actual length of your room is 16 feet. determine the width and length of your room on the blueprint. on the blueprint, your room will have a width of feet and a length of feet.

What is the slope of the line that contains the points (-2,1) and (0,-3)