Question

In 1492, Christopher Columbus journeyed to the New World, where he explored portions of the coast of two large Caribbean islands, Cuba and Hispaniola. Cuba is the larger of the two islands. Cuba is 10,000 square miles larger than Hispaniola. Hispaniola is only as large as Cuba. The equation below, where x is the area of Cuba in square miles, expresses this relationship.

x − 10,000 = 3/4x

What is the area of Cuba, in square miles?

Answer 1

ummm

Answer 2

1/4 x=10,000

Answer 3

1/40,000

Answer 4

this is confuseing

Answer 5

was i right caz i need the answeer to be check im rather in a hurry

Answer 6

umm i just guess caz ill never get it

Answer 7

2,500

Answer 8

oh so the answer is x=2,500

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

2,500*4=10,000

Answer 11

i swear retricehole go away caz i now how to and i did this is whhy im here not like u to put people don go away

Answer 12

i never asked for your help ok i ask people that are pateinet can actually do this

Answer 13

Alright. As Hero was saying, when you have \[\frac{ a }{ b } = \frac{ c }{ d }\]
then you can make is so that it's ad = bc.

Answer 14

This is called cross-multiplying, because it looks like this: