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Okay A c t math aspiring shmoop er's and everyone

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Here we go If a plus b is one what's

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another way to write a times quantity one minus a

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The problem wants us to rewrite a times quantity one

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minus a And judging from the answer choices it wants

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us to introduce some bee in there The easiest way

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to do this problem is to stage a mini rebellion

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against outrun all its variables Since the answer choices are

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all in variables and we're not told what a times

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twenty one months actually is equal to Well then we

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can make up our own numbers That's fun Dish Let

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equals three Let's be equal Negative too And this works

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because while a plus b is three plus negative to

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which equals one so phase three then we can solve

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a times quantity one one say is eight times one

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is three times one ministry which is three times thing

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too So eight times condominium is negative Six All right

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well a bung The answer Choices We're looking for another

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expression that equals negative six when a is three and

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b is negative too Well the only one that fits

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the bill is a b That's the answer D there

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since three times Negative too is negative Six What's that

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you say Your algebra teacher is standing right behind you

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With a ruler All right we get it The timing

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just isn't right for your rebellion Put your weaponized imagers

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down and solve this problem Algebraic lee realigning or rearranging

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the first equation so that we can see a in

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terms of b So it looks like this a plus

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b is one and then a equals one minus b

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But does the problem want us to completely get rid

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of a or should we mix it up a bit

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It's unclear from the answer choices so we substitute in

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one minus b for only the second day and it

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allows us to mix it up in just the right

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way to get the answers That looks like this where

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eight times quantity one might say is eight times the

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quantity one minus quantity one minus b which is the

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same Asked a times twenty zero plus b which is

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the same as well just eight times b Well finding

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just the right mix may have taken you sometime and

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since you also could have tried substituting the first term

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a There are on ly on That's what it would

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have looked like or you could have tried getting rid

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of it altogether translating the entire expression into b That's

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what it would have looked like But the answer is 00:02:17.465 --> [endTime] d eight times being all right we're done

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