Hello I’m new here ! But I’m having trouble understanding how my teacher factored out the A from a-a(1.2^4)? And made it to A(1-1.2^4)? I attached a picture !

Thank you everyone :)

This is the distributive property:

ab + ac = a (b + c)

In this case, you have

a - a (1.2⁴)

and a is a common factor to both a and a (1.2)⁴, so you can pull it out as

a (1 - 1.2⁴)

4 + 5 7/9= 9 7/9

step-by-step explanation:

the correct option is 2.

step-by-step explanation:

according to the given information triangle abc is a right angle triangle with right angle at a. segment ab is 5 and segment ac is 7. point d is on segment bc and angles adb and adc are right angles.

it is given that triangles abd, cad, and cba are similar.

two triangles are similar if their corresponding sides are proportional.

in triangle cba, using pythagoras theorem

                      )

triangle abd and cba are similar,

                            (2)

triangle cad and cba are similar,

                      )

using (1), (2) and (3), we get

hence proved.

therefore option 2 is correct.