Answer:
= - 3n
Step-by-step explanation:
There is a common difference between consecutive terms, that is
- 6 - (- 3) = - 9 - (- 6) = - 12 - (- 9) = - 3
This indicate the sequence is arithmetic with n th term
= a₁ + (n - 1)d
where a₁ is the first term and d the common difference
Here a₁ = - 3 and d = - 3 , thus
= - 3 - 3(n - 1) = - 3 - 3n + 3 = - 3n
The n th term is - 3n
Answer:
When we have a rational function like:
The domain will be the set of all real numbers, such that the denominator is different than zero.
So the first step is to find the values of x such that the denominator (x^2 + 3) is equal to zero.
Then we need to solve:
x^2 + 3 = 0
x^2 = -3
x = √(-3)
This is the square root of a negative number, then this is a complex number.
This means that there is no real number such that x^2 + 3 is equal to zero, then if x can only be a real number, we will never have the denominator equal to zero, so the domain will be the set of all real numbers.
D: x ∈ R.
b) we want to find two different numbers x such that:
r(x) = 1/4
Then we need to solve:
We can multiply both sides by (x^2 + 3)
Now we can multiply both sides by 4:
Now we only need to solve the quadratic equation:
x^2 + 3 - 4*x - 4 = 0
x^2 - 4*x - 1 = 0
We can use the Bhaskara's formula to solve this, remember that for an equation like:
a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0
the solutions are:
here we have:
a = 1
b = -4
c = -1
Then in this case the solutions are:
x = (4 + 4.47)/2 = 4.235
x = (4 - 4.47)/2 = -0.235
