How many 5/16's are in 1 & 7/8?

A golfer takes two putts to get the ball into the hole. The first putt rolls the ball 10.3 feet in the northwest direction and t

creativ13 [48]

Let's put this on the usual Cartesian grid just so we can talk about it without drawing a picture. We'll use map conventions, right is east, up is north.

The ball starts at (0,0). 10.3 feet northwest means we have an isosceles right triangle whose diagonal is 10.3 feet. It's isosceles because northwest means equal parts north and west.

The sides of these triangles are in ratio $1:1:\sqrt{2}$ so the coordinates after the first putt are

$(- 10.3 / \sqrt{2}, 10.3 / \sqrt{2})$

The negative sign indicates west, which doesn't really matter for this problem. The distance from the origin to this point is 10.3 as required.

Now a second putt of 3.8 feet north puts us at

$(- 10.3 / \sqrt{2}, 10.3 / \sqrt{2} + 3.8)$

The squared distance to the origin is exactly

$d^2 = 10.3^2/2 + (10.3 / \sqrt{2} + 3.8)^2$

A little calculator work tells us

$d \approx 13.2621$

Third choice.

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a company donates 935 pencils to a school. the pencils are divided evenly among 9 classrooms. the rest of the pencils are given

wariber [46]

The problem deals with a division and the rest of it, that is dividing the total amount of pencils into 9 classrooms and the rest, lets express it as fraction:
935/9 = 103 + 8/9
that is, if we multiply 103*9 we get 927 and are 8 pencils left over, therefore, 8 pencils are donated to the library and each classroom gets 103 pencils, in total 935 pencils are donated.

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Please solve these asap. 50 points and will be marked as brainliest

Sergeu [11.5K]

Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

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What is the slope of the line that contains these points?

Setler79 [48]

Answer:

what are the 2 points? please write your points as (x, y).

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(x+2/x-7) - (x^2+4x+13/x^2-4x-21)

olya-2409 [2.1K]

Answer:

x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or x = 0.892002 or x = 4.24151

Step-by-step explanation:

Solve for x:

-x^2 + x + 14 + 2/x - 13/x^2 = 0

Bring -x^2 + x + 14 + 2/x - 13/x^2 together using the common denominator x^2:

(-x^4 + x^3 + 14 x^2 + 2 x - 13)/x^2 = 0

Multiply both sides by x^2:

-x^4 + x^3 + 14 x^2 + 2 x - 13 = 0

Multiply both sides by -1:

x^4 - x^3 - 14 x^2 - 2 x + 13 = 0

Eliminate the cubic term by substituting y = x - 1/4:

13 - 2 (y + 1/4) - 14 (y + 1/4)^2 - (y + 1/4)^3 + (y + 1/4)^4 = 0

Expand out terms of the left hand side:

y^4 - (115 y^2)/8 - (73 y)/8 + 2973/256 = 0

Add (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + (73 y)/8 to both sides:

y^4 + (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + 2973/256 = (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + (73 y)/8

y^4 + (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + 2973/256 = (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16)^2:

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16)^2 = (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + (73 y)/8

Add 2 (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) λ + λ^2 to both sides:

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16)^2 + 2 λ (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) + λ^2 = (73 y)/8 + (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + 2 λ (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) + λ^2

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16)^2 + 2 λ (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) + λ^2 = (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ)^2:

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ)^2 = (73 y)/8 + (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + 2 λ (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) + λ^2

(73 y)/8 + (sqrt(2973) y^2)/8 + (115 y^2)/8 + 2 λ (y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16) + λ^2 = (2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) y^2 + (73 y)/8 + (sqrt(2973) λ)/8 + λ^2:

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ)^2 = y^2 (2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) + (73 y)/8 + (sqrt(2973) λ)/8 + λ^2

Complete the square on the right hand side:

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ)^2 = (y sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) + 73/(16 sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8)))^2 + (4 (2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) (λ^2 + (sqrt(2973) λ)/8) - 5329/64)/(4 (2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8))

To express the right hand side as a square, find a value of λ such that the last term is 0.

This means 4 (2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) (λ^2 + (sqrt(2973) λ)/8) - 5329/64 = 1/64 (512 λ^3 + 96 sqrt(2973) λ^2 + 3680 λ^2 + 460 sqrt(2973) λ + 11892 λ - 5329) = 0.

Thus the root λ = 1/48 (-3 sqrt(2973) - 115) + 1/12 (-i sqrt(3) + 1) ((3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)/2)^(1/3) + (173 (i sqrt(3) + 1))/(3 2^(2/3) (3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)^(1/3)) allows the right hand side to be expressed as a square.

(This value will be substituted later):

(y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ)^2 = (y sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) + 73/(16 sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8)))^2

Take the square root of both sides:

y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ = y sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) + 73/(16 sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8)) or y^2 + sqrt(2973)/16 + λ = -y sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8) - 73/(16 sqrt(2 λ + 115/8 + sqrt(2973)/8))

Solve using the quadratic formula:

y = 1/8 (sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)) + sqrt(2) sqrt((10252 - 32 sqrt(2973) λ - 256 λ^2 + 292 sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))/(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))) or y = 1/8 (sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)) - sqrt(2) sqrt((10252 - 32 sqrt(2973) λ - 256 λ^2 + 292 sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))/(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))) or y = 1/8 (sqrt(2) sqrt((10252 - 32 sqrt(2973) λ - 256 λ^2 - 292 sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))/(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973))) - sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973))) or y = 1/8 (-sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)) - sqrt(2) sqrt((10252 - 32 sqrt(2973) λ - 256 λ^2 - 292 sqrt(2) sqrt(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))/(16 λ + 115 + sqrt(2973)))) where λ = 1/48 (-3 sqrt(2973) - 115) + 1/12 (-i sqrt(3) + 1) ((3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)/2)^(1/3) + (173 (i sqrt(3) + 1))/(3 2^(2/3) (3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)^(1/3))

Substitute λ = 1/48 (-3 sqrt(2973) - 115) + 1/12 (-i sqrt(3) + 1) ((3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)/2)^(1/3) + (173 (i sqrt(3) + 1))/(3 2^(2/3) (3 i sqrt(10705335) - 8327)^(1/3)) and approximate:

y = -3.23079 or y = -1.40272 or y = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Substitute back for y = x - 1/4:

x - 1/4 = -3.23079 or y = -1.40272 or y = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Add 1/4 to both sides:

x = -2.98079 or y = -1.40272 or y = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Substitute back for y = x - 1/4:

x = -2.98079 or x - 1/4 = -1.40272 or y = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Add 1/4 to both sides:

x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or y = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Substitute back for y = x - 1/4:

x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or x - 1/4 = 0.642002 or y = 3.99151

Add 1/4 to both sides:

x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or x = 0.892002 or y = 3.99151

Substitute back for y = x - 1/4:

x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or x = 0.892002 or x - 1/4 = 3.99151

Add 1/4 to both sides:

Answer: x = -2.98079 or x = -1.15272 or x = 0.892002 or x = 4.24151

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