Jerome is cooking dinner. He needs 8 ounces of broccoli for each person.

Part A: Jerome is not sure how many people will come to dinner. Write an expression with a variable that represents the amount of broccoli Jerome needs for dinner. Identify what the variable represents.

Part B: If Jerome has 32 ounces of broccoli, how many people can he feed? Create an equation and show all work to solve it.

Which shows one way to determine the factors of  x3  +  5x2  –  6x  –  30 by grouping? x(x2  –  5)  +  6(x2  –  5)x(x2  +  5)  –  6(x2  +  5)x2(x  –  5)  +  6(x  –  5)x2(x  +  5)  –  6(x  +  5)

Each of the walls of a room with square dimensions has been built with two pieces of sheetrock, a smaller one and a larger one. the length of all the smaller ones is the same and is stored in the variable small. similarly, the length of all the larger ones is the same and is stored in the variable large. write a single expression whose value is the total area of this room. do not use any method invocations.

Find the required measurements of the following trapezoids. a = 8 cm b = 16 cm h = 10 cm