Question

Can someone help me with this question please.

Answer 1

a. +3

b. -12a

Explanation:

Here, we want to know the steps that are involved in those unoccupied segments

let’s start with the output

6a + 18

So what turned a to 6a + 18

Let’s call that output x

Let’s reverse the last step that multiplied that term and a

Thus (6a + 18)/6 = a + 3

Thus the x-term we are looking for is + 3 before the multiplication by 6

Now for the second part;

a * 4 -3 = -12a