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Question:
The square of a number decreased by 3 times the number is 28 find all possible values for the number
Answer:
The possible values of number are 7 and -4
Solution:
Given that the square of a number decreased by 3 times the number is 28
To find: all possible values of number
Let "a" be the unknown number
From given information,
square of a number decreased by 3 times the number = 28


Let us solve the above quadratic equation


Using the above formula,


Thus the possible values of number are 7 and -4
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
We'll just work on solving both so you can see what's involved in solving an absolute value equation. Because an absolute value is a distance, we can have that distance being both to the right on the number line of the number in question or to the left. For example, from 2 on the number line, the numbers that are 5 units away are 7 and -3. Using that logic, we will simplify the equation down so we can set up the 2 basic equations needed to solve for x.
If
then
What you need to remember here is that you cannot distribute into a set of absolute values like you would a set of parenthesis. The -2 needs to be divided away:

Now we can set up the 2 main equations for this which are
.5x + 1.5 = .5 and .5x + 1.5 = -.5
Knowing that an absolute value will never equal a negative number (because absolute values are distances and distances will NEVER be negative), once we remove the absolute value signs we can in fact state that the expression on the left can be equal to a negative number on the right, like in the second equation above.
Solving the first one:
.5x = -1 so
x = -2
Solving the second one:
.5x = -2 so
x = -4
1. You have the following information given in the problem above:
- Ella mixed<span> two kinds of candy the price of which was $2 and $4 per pound.
- Ella got a 10-lb mix of candy, which cost $2.90 per pound.
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2. Therefore, let's call:
x: pounds of the first kind of candy.
y: pounds of the second kind of candy.
3. Then, you have:
2x+4(10-x)=(2.90)(10)
4. When you clear x, you obtain:
2x+40-4x=29
-2x=29-40
x=-11/-2
x=5.5 pounds
x+y=10
y=10-x
y=10-5.5
y=4.5 pounds
The right answer is C
Let me to explain. From the graph we know that the vertex of this parabola is
. This is a<em> maximum y-value.</em> We also know that the parabola <em>opens downward, </em>so the leading coefficient is negative. Given that the function is even and the leading coefficient is negative, it follows that the graph falls to the left and right. In a mathematical language this is:
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