The year in which the US Civil War ended was 25 percent later than the year Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain. If c represents the year Columbus set sail, we can write the year the Civil War ended as c + 0.25c. Rewrite this expression as a single term.
Rewrite the expression c + 0.25c using fractions instead of decimal numbers.
Rewrite the expression you developed in Part B as a single term with a fractional coefficient.
Are the expressions you developed in Part A and Part C the same? Why or why not?
Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. In what year did the Civil War end?
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