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A good place to start is to set to y. That would mean we are looking for
to be an integer. Clearly,
, because if y were greater the part under the radical would be a negative, making the radical an imaginary number, not an integer. Also note that since
is a radical, it only outputs values from
, which means y is on the closed interval:
.
With that, we don't really have to consider y anymore, since we know the interval that is on.
Now, we don't even have to find the x values. Note that only 11 perfect squares lie on the interval , which means there are at most 11 numbers that x can be which make the radical an integer. All of the perfect squares are easily constructed. We can say that if k is an arbitrary integer between 0 and 11 then:
Which is strictly positive so we know for sure that all 11 numbers on the closed interval will yield a valid x that makes the radical an integer.
Answer: 24 cups.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let be "x" the amount of cups of peaches that Fred will need to make 60 cups of fruit salad.
According to the information given in the exercise, you know that the ratio of cups of peaches to cups of cherries is the one shown below:
Which can also be written as a fraction:
Then, if he uses 2 cups of peaches and 3 cups of cherries, he will get 5 cups of fruit salad.
Knowing the above, you can set up the following proportion:
Now you must solve for "x" in order to find its value. This is: