A Mad Professor has created a new kind of creature called a Blorg. For each Blorg, one hour after it is born, it gives birth to a new Blorg. Two hours after it is born, it gives birth to two more new Blorgs and then it immediately dies. If the Professor starts with one newborn Blorg at noon, how many live Blorgs does he have at 4:05 PM that afternoon after the new Blorgs have been born and the 2-hour-olds have died?

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.

-12 > a

step-by-step explanation:

-11 > 1 + a

subtract 1 from each side

-11 -1> 1 -1+ a

-12 > a