Michael and john are creating patterns. each patterns starts at 1. michael uses the rule multiply by 2 and then subtract 1. john uses the rule multiply by 5, and then subtract 3. plot the ordered pairs that are created from the first three terms of the sequences.

plot them away.

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!