Pleaseee help! Marie was trying to show her friend why -3 × -8 equals a positive product. This is what she wrote:

-3 × 0 = 0
-3 × (?) = 0
-3(8) + -3(-8) = 0

-24 + 24 = 0

What should Marie write in place of the question mark?
A. 8 + 8
B. -8 + (-8)
C. 8 + (-8)
D. -8 + 0

Here is their argument. given the obtuse angle x, we make a quadrilateral abcd with ∠dab = x, and ∠abc = 90◦, and ad = bc. say the perpendicular bisector to dc meets the perpendicular bisector to ab at p. then pa = pb and pc = pd. so the triangles pad and pbc have equal sides and are congruent. thus ∠pad = ∠pbc. but pab is isosceles, hence ∠pab = ∠pba. subtracting, gives x = ∠pad−∠pab = ∠pbc −∠pba = 90◦. this is a preposterous conclusion – just where is the mistake in the "proof" and why does the argument break down there?

List x1, x2, x3, x4 where xi is the midpoint endpoint of the five equal intervals used to estimate the area under the curve of f(x) between x = 0 and x = 10.

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