Sparks Garden is in the shape of a trapezoid, and the dimensions are shown below. A gardener needs to spread fertilizer over the flowerbeds. Each bag of fertilizer he uses covers 240 m
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A. 16 bags
B. 8 bags
C. 23 bags
D. 12 bags

Answerthe simplified expression isexplanationthe given expression is,let us deal with the bracket first.the two negatives in the parenthesis will become positive.the expression now becomes,we now expand the parenthesis to get,we group like terms to obtain,this simplifies to,

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X= -5because this is a single step equation so you would just have to divide -16 both sides for x to equal your solution