Two consecutive numbers have a sum of 27. What is the smaller number?

Solve |2x - 5| = 4 if anyone could , that would be great

Trent wants to buy 2 packs of trading cards for 3 dollars each. the trading card packs that trent normally buys tend to come in packs of 6, 10, 12, or 15 cards. after selecting 2 packs, trent found that the first pack of cards cost 25 cents per card, and the second pack cost 30 cents per card. trent uses this information to write the equations below in order to compare c, the number of cards in each pack.

The length of triangle base is 26. a line, which is parallel to the base divides the triangle into two equal area parts. find the length of the segment between triangle legs.