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A new parking lot is being built for a medical office. The expression representing the number of parking spots in the new lot is StartFraction 15 x over 4 EndFraction minus 9, where x represents the number of parking spots in the first row. How many spots are in the parking lot if there are 32 parking spots in the first row?

User Maudem
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111 spots there your answer ! :)

User Csi
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Answer:

111 spots

Explanation:

Let y denote the total number of parking spots expressed as:


y=(15x)/(4)-9\\\\

Given that x is the number of spots in the first row.

-Now, given that the first row has 32 spots, we substitute in the expression to solve for y:


y=(15x)/(4)-9,\ \ x=32\\\\=(15* 32)/(4)-9\\\\=120-9\\\\=111

Hence, there are 111 spots in the parking lot.

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