That funky circle in the middle is the composition of the function. It asks you to take a function as an input and to yield an output that's another function. It's one of the five function operations, along with adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.
When you compose, you might find the notation w(u(x)) easier to understand. It's saying evaluate u then evaluate w.
For our functions, the compositions are:
u(w(x)) = u(2x²) = -(2x²) - 2 = -2x² - 2
w(u(x)) = w(-x - 2) = 2(-x - 2)² = 2(x² + 4x + 4) = =2x²+ 8x +8
Now we evaluate each composition at 4.
u(w(4)) = -2(4²) - 2 = -2(16) - 2 = -32 -2 = -34
w(u(4)) = -2(2²) +8(2) + 8 = -2(4) + 16 + 8 = -8 + 16 + 8 = 16.
Thus, u(w(4)) = -34 and w(u(4)) = 16.
The error made by zacharias in solving the quadratic equation 0 = -2x² + 5x - 3 using quadratic formula is; the 2 in the numerator should be –2.
<h3>Quadratic equation</h3>
There are four methods of solving quadratic equation. Namely;
- Factorization method
- Completing the square method
- Graphical method
- Formula method
0 = -2x² + 5x - 3
x = -b ± √b² - 4ac / 2a
where,
x = -b ± √b² - 4ac / 2a
x = -5 ± √5² - 4(-2)(-3) / 2(-2)
= -5 ± √25 - (24) / -2
= -5 ± √1 / -2
= -5/2 ± 1/2
= -5/2 - 1/2 or x = -5/2 + 1/2
= -5-1 / 2 or -5+1/ 2
x = -6/2 or -4/2
x = -3 or -2
Therefore, the solution to the quadratic equation is x = -3 or -2
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x^2 =125/4-121/4-11
x^2=4/4-11
x^2=1-11
x^2= -10
x= i.square root of 10
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