This year, Cornell’s class took one more than three times as many field trips as last year’s class. This year, Cornell’s class took a total of 7 trips. How many field trip did his class take last year?

54

step-by-step explanation:

you ignore the remainder, therefore the answer is y = x+2

step-by-step explanation:

you have to divide the denominator by the numerator. you can use synthetic division or long division.

[-5] .     1 .     7 .     11

x + 2 + 1/x+5