Item 15 Question 1 a. Without performing any calculations, determine whether the triangle or the rectangle has a greater area. Explain your reasoning.

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step-by-step explanation:

x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis:

      2

  2 is to go somewhat to the top right of a because it is squared    

v= a h/3