A baby gains 11 pounds in its first year of life. The baby gained 4 and one-fourth pounds during the first four months and 3 and one-halfpounds in its second four months. How much did the baby gain in the last four months?

Answerthe simplified expression isexplanationthe given expression is,let us deal with the bracket first.the two negatives in the parenthesis will become positive.the expression now becomes,we now expand the parenthesis to get,we group like terms to obtain,this simplifies to,

X= -5because this is a single step equation so you would just have to divide -16 both sides for x to equal your solution