Ab-0.5bab−0.5ba, b, minus, 0, point, 5, b when a=1a=1a, equals, 1 and b=5b=5

  2.5

Step-by-step explanation:

Put the values in place of the corresponding variables and do the arithmetic:

  ab - 0.5b = (1)(5) -0.5(5) = 5 - 2.5 = 2.5

no idea

step-by-step explanation:

no because after the troops were pulled many blacks were killed by hangings lynchings and other cruel ways which in a way interrupted the reconstruction of the south and differed from the way abraham lincoln had an idea of reconstruction