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If I am reading your post right and there is no more to the problem:

A = O - 47628

Key phrase here is "votes less then" meaning taking it away from. 

It wants you to solve for O so you add 47628 to A to get O

O = A + 47628

The rules are as follows:

If you can remember this phrase, you should be good.

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P = Parenthesis E = Exponents M = Multiplication D = Division A = Addition S = Subtraction

Once you have done the first four, combining like terms comes with addition and subtraction.

If you have a trinomial (ax^2 + bx + c)

you have to break it down into two binomials 

For example x^2 + 5x + 6

If a = 1 then the product of the two numbers equaling c must add up b

6 = 2*3 ............... so 2+3 = 5

thus (x+3)(x+2)

If a is not equal to one, you then have to take into consideration the factors of a as well as c

For example: 2x^2 + 7x + 3

a = 2 and c = 3 so the product of two numbers equaling a and products of two numbers equaling c must equal b in some way of multiplying

2 * 1 = 2 ....

Because those are the only two factors we can start writing the binomials as (2x + ?)(x + ?)

now c = 3 and the only two factors would be 3*1 = 3 

so you have 2 and 1  as well as 3 and 1. 

If the middle number is 7, I can take 2*3 = 6  and 1*! = 1 so 6+1=7

If I put them in factored form, I get (2x+1)(x+3). 

Does that make sense?

First, this is a Distance = rate * time equation problem

First you have 45mph at an x amount of hours and 60 mph at a y amount of hours. 

The total trip including her stay was 43 hours.

From that we can conclude x + y + 10 = 43

We also can conclude that D = 45(x) and D = 60(33-x) because travel time only was 33 hrs

From that D = D so 45x = 1980 - 60x

Simplify 105x = 1980 

Simply x = 18.9[...] hours thus the distance would be

45(18.9[...]) = about 849 miles

PS: Do not round until final answer

No, and this is why.

If you were to plot that point, you would start at the origin and go left two, down one. 

Looking at the Cartesian Plane, a horizontal line going through that point would occur at  y = -1