Fred had Pokemon cards he gave 8 to his friends he now has 2 Pokemon cards left how many Pokemon cards did he have to start with

Step-by-step explanation:

He had 10 because 8+2=10

Fred had 10 Pokémon cards to begin with

Step-by-step explanation:

You would add 8+2 and see that the answer was 10. 10-8=2

2x^2+5x+17

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!