The lengths of three sides of a quadrilateral are shown below:

Side 1: 4y + 2y2 - 3

Side 2: -4 + 2y2 + 2y

Side 3: 4y2 - 3 + 2y

The perimeter of the quadrilateral is 22y3 + 10y2 + 10y - 17.

Part A: What is the total length of sides 1, 2, and 3 of the quadrilateral? (4 points)

Part B: What is the length of the fourth side of the quadrilateral? (4 points)

Part C: Do the answers for Part A and Part B show that the polynomials are closed under addition
and subtraction? Justify your answer. (2 points

Answer:
  (A) 8y^2 +8y -10
  (B) 22y^3 +2y^2 +2y -7
  (C) yes, for these polynomials. The result of adding or subtracting the polynomials in this problem
is another polynomial, suggesting the set of polynomials is closed to addition and subtraction.
Step-by-step explanation:
A. (4y + 2y^2 - 3) + (-4 + 2y^2 + 2y) + (4y^2 - 3 + 2y)
  = y^2(2 +2 +4) +y(4 +2 +2) +(-3 -4 -3)
  = 8y^2 +8y -10 . . . . total length of sides 1, 2, 3
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B. The length of the 4th side is the difference between the perimeter and the sum of the other
three sides:
  (22y^3 + 10y^2 + 10y - 17) -(8y^2 +8y -10)
  = 22y^3 +y^2(10 -8) +y(10 -8) +(-17 +10)
  = 22y^3 +2y^2 +2y -7 . . . . length of 4th side
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C. The result of adding or subtracting the polynomials in this problem is another polynomial,
suggesting the set of polynomials is closed to addition and subtraction. An example is not a proof,
but there is nothing about this example that would suggest a different conclusion.

The lengths of three sides of a quadrilateral are shown below:

Side 1: 1y2 + 3y - 6
Side 2: 4y - 7 + 2y2
Side 3: 3y2 - 8 + 5y
The perimeter of the quadrilateral is 8y3 - 2y2 + 4y - 26.
Part A: What is the total length of sides 1, 2, and 3 of the quadrilateral? (4 points)
Part B: What is the length of the fourth side of the quadrilateral? (4 points)
Part C: Do the answers for Part A and Part B show that the polynomials are closed under addition
and subtraction? Justify your answer.

Answer:

A. y^2 + 3y - 6 + 4y - 7 + 2y^2 + 3y^2 - 8 + 5y = 6y^2 + 12y - 21 <==

B. 8y^3 - 2y^2 + 4y - 26 - (6y^2 + 12y - 21) = 

    8y^3 - 2y^2 + 4y - 26 - 6y^2 - 12y + 21 = 
    8y^3 - 8y^2 - 8y + - 5 <==

C. (part A) this is closed under addition

     (part B) this is closed under subtraction
     Polynomials will be closed under an operation if the operation produces      another polynomial

The lengths of three sides of a quadrilateral are shown below:

Side 1: 3y2 + 2y - 6
Side 2: 3y - 7 + 4y2
Side 3: -8 + 5y2 + 4y The perimeter of the quadrilateral is 4y3 + 18y2 + 16y - 26.

Part A: What is the total length of sides 1, 2, and 3 of the quadrilateral? (4 points)

Part B: What is the length of the fourth side of the quadrilateral?

Part C: Do the answers for Part A and Part B show that the polynomials are closed under addition
and subtraction? Justify your answer.

Given that the lengths of three sides of a trapezoid are shown as follows:

PART A:
The total length of sides 1, 2, and 3 of the trapezoid is obtained by the sum of the polynomials
representing the length of sides 1, 2, and 3.

Thus, total length of sides 1, 2, and 3 is given by

PART B:
The length of the fourth side of the trapezoid is given by the difference between the perimeter of
the trapezoid and the length of sides 1, 2, and 3.

Thus, the length of the fourth side of the trapezoid is given by

PART C:
From part A, we can see that the addition of polynomials results in a polynomial.
Likewise, the subtraction of polynomials results in a polynomial.

Therefore, we can say that the polynomials are closed under addition and subtraction.