Ms. carson's art class made a large rectangular mural. the length of the mural is 9 feet, and it's area is 72 square feet. what is the width of the mural?

In this problem, the distributive property is very important, but there is another thing that we can look at to make this much easier. We notice that the terms on the left are being multiplied by 6. We can rewrite the right side so that it is also a multiple of 6:

6(3c - 5d + 6) = 6(1)

Now, we can divide both sides by 6, and we get:

6(3c - 5d + 6) = 6(1)

3c - 5d + 6 = 1

3c - 5d = -5