Jake the lumberjack cut a log into three pieces in 6 minutes. he then cut a similar log into 5 pieces. how long should the job have taken if he had worked at the same rate?

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square