What is 4 1/2 + -17 1/4 it doesn’t have to be simplify xo

Elena and her husband marc both drive to work. elena's car has a current mileage (total distance driven) of 15,000 and she drives 23,000 miles more each year. marc's car has a current mileage of 46,000 and he drives 9,000 miles more each year. will the mileages for the two cars ever be equal? explain.

The manufacturer of a new product developed the following expression to predict the monthly profit, in thousands of dollars, from sales of the productwhen it is sold at a unit price of x dollars.-0.5x^2 + 22x - 224what is represented by the zero(s) of the expression? a.the profit when the unit price is equal to 0b.the unit price(s) when the profit is equal to 0c.the profit when the unit price is greatestd.the unit price(s) when profit is greatest

Me asap on # : explain how factoring a trinomial, ax^2+ bx+ c, when a does not equal 1 different from factoring a trinomial when a = 1.