we can set up an equation to find the girls' ages. the equation is 28=0.5x-5+x. (comment if you need me to explain how i got this equation.) so, you add x and 0.5x to get 1.5x and add 5 to each side. your new equation is 33=1.5x. now divide both sides of the equation by 1.5 to get 22=x. because x is mary's age, to find jasmine's age we subtract mary's age from 28. we find that mary is 22 years old and jasmine is 6 years old.
1. a right triangle is graphed on a coordinate plane. find the length of the hypotenuse. round your answer to the nearest tenth. 2. use the angle relationship in the figure below to solve for the value of x. assume that lines a and b are parallel and line c is a transversal.