PLEASE HELP...When you have a problem like the one listed below... What do you do with your exponents?

Girardo is using the model below to solve the equation . girardo uses the following steps: step 1 add 4 negative x-tiles to both sides step 2 add 1 negative unit tile to both sides step 3 the solution is which step could be adjusted so that gerardo's final step results in a positive x-value? in step 1, he should have added 4 positive x-tiles to both sides. in step 1, he should have added 3 negative x-tiles to both sides. in step 2, he should have added 4 negative unit tiles to both sides. in step 2, he should have added 1 positive unit tile to both sides.

Consider that lines b and c are parallel. what is the value of x? what is the measure of the smaller angle?

The number of chocolate chips in a bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 12611261 chips and a standard deviation of 118118 chips. (a) determine the 2626th percentile for the number of chocolate chips in a bag. (b) determine the number of chocolate chips in a bag that make up the middle 9696% of bags. (c) what is the interquartile range of the number of chocolate chips in a bag of chocolate chip cookies?