All real numbers is the answer
|k - 2| * |3k| - 1
Substitute all of the "k" variables for -4
|-4 - 2| * |3(-4)| - 1
Multiply 3 by -4
|-4 - 2| * |-12| -1
Subtract 2 from -4
|-6| * |-12| - 1
Use the absolute value method
6 * 12 - 1
Combine like terms
Final Answer: 71
If you apply the or both
Only 1 of the students would need to know the "or both", therefore maximizing the remaining amount of students you can put in.
Gerald, let's call him, knows French AND German, so there's only one less student that knows french and german. Gerald is 1 student.
MAXIMUM:
There are now 14 monolinguistic French speakers and 16 monolinguistic German's, 30 students + Gerald=31.
Minimum:
As a bonus, the minimum is 15 students knowing french AND German and only 2 monolinguistic German speakers, so 17.
Use the arithmetic operations to get the variable x on one side of the equation and everything else on the opposite side.
If something is being is being done to a variable, we undo that operation by using the inverse of that operation.
For example, if 10 is being added to x, we use the inverse of addition or subtraction.
18 - 7x = -20.5
We variable x is being multiplied by 7 and is subtracting 18. We need to undo all those operations.
18 - 7x = -20.5
-7x = -38.5
Now the variable is only being multiplied by -7. Reverse the operation.
-7x = -38.5
x = 5.5
So, x is equal to 5.5.
