What represents be the the phrase the square of y decreased by the quotient of 27 and 7"

What are “like terms”? why can we only add like terms?

Statements reasons 1. ab ? cd; ad ? bc 1. given 2. ac ? ac 2. reflexive property 3. ? adc ? ? cba 3. ? 4. ? dac ? ? bca; ? acd ? ? cab 4. cpctc 5. ? dac and ? bca are alt. int. ? s; ? acd and ? cab are alt. int. ? s 5. definition of alternate interior angles 6. ab ? cd; ad ? bc 6. converse of the alternate interior angles theorem 7. abcd is a parallelogram 7. definition of parallelogram what is the missing reason in step 3?

Two cities a and b are 1400km apart and lie on the same n-s line. the latitude of city a is 23 degrees. what is the latitude of city b. the radius of the earth is approximately 6400km.