26. higher order thinking a mother
manatee, pictured to the right, is three
times as long as her baby manatee.
a. how long is her baby manatee? write
and solve an equation.
12 feet
b. if a blue whale is 9 times as long as the
manatee shown, how much longer is
a blue whale than the manatee? write
and solve equations.

a) Hence the Baby Manatee is 4 feet long.

b) Hence the Length of blue whale is 108 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Length of Mother manatee = 12 feet.

Now given that:

A mother  manatee is three  times as long as her baby manatee.

Let the length of baby manatee be 'x'.

So equation can be framed as

hence the equation is .

Solving the equation we get;

Dividing both side by 3 using Division property of equality we get;

a) Hence the Baby Manatee is 4 feet long.

Solving for part b we get;

Given:

If a blue whale is 9 times as long as the  mother manatee

Hence equation can be framed as;

Length of blue whale is =

Length of blue whale is =

b) Hence the Length of blue whale is 108 feet.

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet

step-by-step explanation:

let's assume length of parallelogram is 'l'

width of parallelogram is 'w'

the perimeter of a parallelogram must be no less than 40 feet

so, we get

we are given

length of parallelogram is 6 feet

so,

l=6

we can plug it

now, we can solve for w

subtract both sides by 12

divide both sides by 2

and we get

so,

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet