Explain how you can mentally determine if the product of 5.5 and 0.95 is less than, or equal to 5.5

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

Marquise has 200 meters of fencing to build a rectangular garden. the garden's area (in square meters) as a function of the garden's width w w (in meters) is modeled by: a ( w ) = − w 2 + 1 0 0 w a(w)=−w 2 +100w what side width will produce the maximum garden area? meters

Explain how the quotient of powers was used to simplify this expression.