Use a five-step plan to solve the following word problem. show all five steps in your response:
the sum of james’ and kevin’s ages is 30. james is 14. how old is kevin?

Use the distributive law to multiply. 3(4x + 5y + 6)

He ! a group of farmers planned to clean 80 acres of wheat per day to finish the work on schedule. right before the work started, they received a new piece of machinery that them clean 10 more acres per day than originally planned. as a result of increased productivity in the last day before the deadline they only had to clean 30 acres. how many acres of wheat did the group of farmers have to clean?

If a and −a are numbers on the number line, which expression must give the distance between them? a) 0 b) a c) |2a| d) |a|