SOLUTION: You plant a 14-inch hemlock tree in your backyard that grows at a rate of 4 inches per year and an 8-inch blue spruce that grows at a rate of 6 inches per year. In how many years

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: You plant a 14-inch hemlock tree in your backyard that grows at a rate of 4 inches per year and an 8-inch blue spruce that grows at a rate of 6 inches per year. In how many years after you plant the trees will the two trees be the same height? How tall will each tree be?
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Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
height of hemlock:lets call h
height of spruce :lets call s
call time t
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h=4t+14
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s=6t+8
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we want to know when those will be equal in other words when h=s. So set the equation values of each of those equal to each other
:
4t+14=6t+8
:
2t=6
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years
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inches
inches
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