What is the difference between 2a + 5 and 2(a + 5)? Give an English expression to describe each of
them. Describe how the brackets change the meaning.

Adecorative window is made up of a rectangle with semicircles at either end. the ratio of ad to ab is 3: 2 and ab is 30 inches. what is the ratio of the area of the rectangle to the combined area of the semicircles? possible answers: a. 2: 3 b. 3: 2 c. 6: π d. 9: π e. 30: π