Question

Is the answer 3x +4?

"Two sides of a quadrilateral have the same length,x, while the other two sides have the same length, both being the next consecutive odd integer. Write the sum of these lengths. Then simplify this expression."

Answer 1

what does "both being the next consecutive odd integer" mean ?

Answer 2

Good question. Unfortunately that's the exact question that I'm trying to learn the answer to :/ which is why I'm not sure of my answer.

Answer 3

I had a person helping me earlier, but since then I've found hardly any help. I started out completely stumped, now I just need a little help in figuring out if I got the right answer or not, and if not, then how to get the right answer.

Answer 4

I didn't do so good on my last homework, now I have like 50 algebra word problems to get done by wednesday and I have to catch up on what I didn't do right on my last homework before I can even move on to my current homework :(

Answer 5

Is there a picture ?

Answer 6

Like we know that two sides are the same, are the other two sides the same as well ?

Answer 7

in the book I'm working out of it does give a picture example, but I have a problem with word problems as it is, so it sets me back when trying to apply it to the word problem :P
here's how someone else was trying to explain some of my math problems


http://openstudy.com/updates/50fad972e4b022b3227028a8

Answer 8

are you using a pearson text?

Answer 9

I think so. I know the book I got also lets me do homework online for the college class I'm taking.

Answer 10

and it does say pearson on it lol

Answer 11

is the online classroom called myLab or myMathLab or something similar?

Answer 12

yes

Answer 13

ok that's pearson. tell me if this is the word problem . (i'm going to take a snapshot of it from an online book)

Answer 14

I get a certain amount of homework to do after each class, but I think I learn slower than some people and I'm having a hard time keeping up. My online tutoring options all have a time limit on it before it starts costing, and I know I need more help than the time they give me, so I'm trying to find ways to get help with some of this stuff.

Answer 15

That's the one.

Answer 16

Ah ok. You didn't type the whole problem out then.. you missed part of it ?

Answer 17

technically I should be working on chapter 9.4-9.5 but I'm still stuck in 9.2-9.3 and having a hard time with it.
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O.o I think I did only put part of it on there... oops :O

Answer 18

This problem we can solve because we know that the length of two sides is x

that means the length of the side with a ? is "the next consecutive odd integer"

so if x is an odd integer, then the next consecutive odd integer is "x + 2"

Answer 19

When I tried working the problem, this is what I did and how I got my answer, but what I don't know is if it's the right answer, and my book doesn't even give the answer in the back so I can't even check it myself.
x+(x+2)+(x+2)
and I got 3x+4. is this right?

Answer 20

are you adding up all the sides of the quadrilateral ?

Answer 21

I have no clue what I'm doing :'( I hate word problems. I can't understand them :P

Answer 22

the word problem isn't very clear anyway

i don't know if it wants us to add the lengths of "x" and "?", or if it wants us to add up the lengths of the entire quadrilateral

if it's just "x" and "?", then the answer is: x + (x + 2) = 2x + 2
if it's all the sides then it's: x + x + (x + 2) + (x + 2) = 4x + 4

Answer 23

Thank you for the help anyway. I'll try to figure out how to get one of those answers and leave it at that I guess.
Thank you also for your patients.

Answer 24

if you ever figure out what the answer is let me know!

Answer 25

Lol, k.

Answer 26

it's definitely not your fault if you struggle with those kinds of word problems because that one in particular is very poorly written and is ambiguous

Answer 27

worst part is it was an expensive book as well XD
my teacher at the college explains his examples well, but I have a very hard time keeping up and because the homework is done online I don't have many options for help. And though there are tutoring options, it's limited and I'm not entirely sure even how to make the best of the options available.

Answer 28

so I'm here asking for help lol.

Answer 29

just don't get hung over with this particular problem. it's a bad bad example of a word problem!

Answer 30

and btw, I tried the problem again in the same way you did it and I think I got 4x+4.

Answer 31

that would give us the perimeter of the shape. 4x + 4 is what we get by adding up ALL the side lengths. i'm not even sure if that's what the question is asking lol, the question doesn't really say what it is asking very clearly