Irma picked 5/8 of a bushel and matthew picked half as many. how many bushels did matthew pick?

ANSWER

bushels

EXPLANATION

It was given that,

Irma picked

of a bushel.

If Mathew picked half as many bushels, then Mathew has:

Hence, Mathew has

bushels.

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square