Suppose one of your friends was absent from school on the day your math class learned about graphing rational numbers on the number line. Using complete sentences, explain to your friend how to graph the opposite of 6.2 on the number line.

i think it would be R/{6.2}

So i would ask this friend to draw a number line and label 6.2 on the number line. Then i would ask her if she knew what the opposite number of 6.2 is.

Yes- The number line will always continue, its indefinite. This means it can go forward or backwards. Make sure that your friend wrote 0. You always need a starting point. Then tell her to draw the tally marks forward the same way she did backwards. Locate the 6.2 and make all of the numbers negative.

6 on both sides and twelve on the top and the bottom

step-by-step explanation:

delaney would like to make a 5lb nut mixture that is 60% peanuts and 40% almonds.

she has several pounds of peanuts and several pounds of a mixture that is 20% peanuts and 80% almonds.

let 'p' represent the number of pounds of peanuts needed to make the new mixture, and  

let 'm' represent the number of pounds of the 80% almond-20% peanut mixture.

:

p + m = 5

therefore

m = (5-p)

write an equation based on the percent of peanuts

1p + .2m = .6(5)

replace m with (5-p)

p + .2(5-p) = .6(5)

p + 1 - .2p = 3

p - .2p = 3 - 1

.8p = 2

p = 2/.8

p = 2.5 lbs of peanuts required

then

5 - 2.5 = 2.5 lbs of the peanut/almond mixture required

:

a) what is the system that models this situation?

p + m = 5

1p + .2m = .6(5)