Ahmad wants to paint a rectangular region of a wall with one layer of paint. He has 32 ft of tape to tape around the border of the region he paints. He is considering three regions with lengths of 8ft, 9ft, and 10ft.

i only know the sequence of arithmetic it adds the first is 5+4 then it goes up as it adds to then it is 9+5 then 14+6 then to 20+7 and so on. 5,9,14,20,27,35.

step-by-step explanation:

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: