The first step in the process for factoring the trinomial x2 - 4x - 32 is to:

The floor plan of a room has a scale of 2.5 in.: 35 ft. in the drawing, the length of the room is 8 in. and the width of the room is 6 in. what is the perimeter of the actual room?

You eat 8 strawberries and your friend eats 12 strawberries from a bowl. there are 20 strawberries left. which equation and solution give the original number of strawberries?

14 pointslet x be the seats in the small van and y the seats in the large van. how many seats does the large van have? a company uses two vans to transport worker from a free parking lot to the workplace between 7: 00 and 9: 00a.m. one van has 9 more seats than the other. the smaller van makes two trips every morning while the larger one makes only one trip. the two vans can transport 69 people, maximum.how many seats does the larger van have?