The Cub Scouts are going door-to-door selling popcorn. Darrell's goal is to sell 6 more boxes than he did the previous day. If he met his goal this week and sold 38 boxes on Friday, how many boxes did he
sell on Tuesday?

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step-by-step explanation:

i think its a and d

step-by-step explanation:

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