Atree limb hangs 5 1/4 feet from a telephone wire. the city trims back the branch before it grows within 2 1/2 feet of the wire. will the city allow the tree to grow 2 3/4 more feet?

The city won't allow the tree to grow more feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to make the conversion from mixed numbers to improper fractions:

Then:

We must subtract and .

Since the denominators are different, we must find the Least Common Denominator (LCD):

Finally, subtracting the fractions, we get:

To convert this result to mixed numbers:

Then:

If the tree grows feet more, will be at the limit allowe. According to the exercise, the city  trims back the branch before this limit.

Therefore, the city won't allow the tree to grow another feet.

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