Suppose the area of a rectangle is represented by the expression 100 – 49. When the expression is fully factored, the factors represent the dimensions of the rectangle. What expressions represent the dimensions of the rectangle?

a - b and a + b.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's say the area of a rectangle is represented by the expression 100a^2 - 49b^2.

According to an algebraic formula, a^2 - b^2 = (a - b) * (a + b) = a^2 - ab + ab - b^2.

In this case, the square root of 100 is 10, and the square root of 49 is 7. That means that we have (10a - 7b) * (10a + 7b).

We can check that by doing... (10a - 7b)(10a + 7b) = 100a^2 - 70ab + 70ab - 49b^2 = 100a^2 - 49b^2.

Since it matches to the expression given, the expressions that represent the dimensions of the rectangle are (a - b) and (a + b).

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b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

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