QuestionSuppose a and b give the populations of two states where a >b. Compare the expressions and tellwhich of the given pair is greater or if the expressions are equal.ba-6(select) va8(select)8INA LV



Answer :

We know that a > b. And we have the next two expressions

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[tex]\frac{a-b}{8}[/tex]

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[tex]a-\frac{b}{8}[/tex]

The first equation we can rewrite as

[tex]\frac{a}{8}-\frac{b}{8}[/tex]

We can see that in the equations we must substract something - b/8

In the first equation we substract a/8 - b/8 and in the second equation we substrac a - b/8.

We know that a > a/8

so,

[tex]a-\frac{b}{8}>\frac{a}{8}-\frac{b}{8}[/tex]

Finally, the answer is

[tex]\frac{a-b}{8}