HORSES AND BULLOCKS A dealer bought a number of horses at $344.00 each, and a number of
bullocks at $265.00 each. He then discovered that the horses had cost him in
all $33.00 more than the bullocks. Now, what is the smallest number of each
that must have bought?

step-by-step explanation:

consider the parallelogram shown in the attached image.

in the parallelogram hijk, the length of hk is given as,

from the properties of parallelogram we know that the opposite sides of a parallelogram are parallel to each other and are equal in measure.

therefore, the length of the side ij must be equal to the length of the side hk and that is .

hence, the expression for the length of ij confirms that hijk is a parallelogram.

parallel lines have the same slope. so if the green line has a slope of -4, the slope of the red line is also -4.