three sisters, ady, beafy, and cedie, went out into the wide world and found jobs; one of them became an architect, one a builder, and the third is a cook. then they married mr. able, dr. baker, and charlie. none of the first letters in their first and last names or occupations match up- so mr able is not married to ady, ans she is not an architect. if charlie's wife isn't a builder, who married the dr

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we have three similar triangles, because each has a right angle and shares an angle.   let's write the angles in order: opposite to short leg, long leg, hypotenuse.

cab similar to bad similar to cbd

or as ratios,

ca: ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

we also know

ac = ad + cd

(ad+cd): ab: cb = ba: ad: bd = cb: bd: cd

(ad+cd)/cb=cb/cd

we have cb=6, ad=5 and seek x=cd.

we reject the negative root and conclude x=4

answer: 4

answer: what are the following choices

answer: the four apples you took away.

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