Problem #4 My teacher said that for every student who earned an A on the last quiz, three students earned a B. If four students earned an A, how many earned a
B? Why? Explain.

12

Step-by-step explanation:

We can write the following ratio

1:3 (for every student who gets an A 3 gets a b)

We then can write a new ratio

4:x

We can solve this ratio by multiplying the original ratio by 4

4:12

This means that 12 people earned an B

the answer is 48m^2!

step-by-step explanation:

or

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!