What is the simplest radical form of the expression?
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<h3>Answer:</h3>
y = 8x² -4x +4
<h3>Explanation:</h3>I find it quick and easy to let a graphing calculator do quadratic regression on the given points. It gives the coefficients of the equation directly. (See attached.)
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If you want to do this "by hand," you can substitute each of the x and y value pairs into the equation to get three linear equations in a, b, and c. These are generally easy to solve, as the "c" variable can be eliminated right away.
<em>For x = 2</em>
... 28 = a·2² +b·2 +c = 4a +2b +c
<em>For x = 4</em>
... 116 = a·4² +4b +c = 16a +4b +c
<em>For x = -3</em>
... 88 = a·(-3)² +b·(-3) +c = 9a -3b +c
Subtracting the first and third equations from the second, we have ...
... (16a +4b +c) -(4a +2b +c) = (116) -(28) ⇒ 12a +2b = 88
... (16a +4b +c) -(9a -3b +c) = (116) -(88) ⇒ 7a +7b = 28
Dividing the first of these reduced equations by 2, and the second by 7, we have ...
- 6a +b = 44
- a +b = 4
Subtracting the second of these from the first gives ...
... (6a +b) -(a +b) = (44) -(4) ⇒ 5a = 40
From which we find
... a = 8
... b = 4 -a = 4 -8 = -4
We choose the first of the original equations to find c:
... c = 28 -4a -2b = 28 -4·8 -2(-4)
... = 28 -32 +8 = 4
With (a, b, c) = (8, -4, 4), the equation of the parabola is ...
... y = 8x² -4x +4
Hello!
This is a problem about the general solution of a differential equation.
What we can first do here is separate the variables so that we have the same variable for each side (ex. with the
term and
with the
term).
Then, we can integrate using the power rule to get rid of the differentiating terms, remember to add the constant of integration, C, to at least one side of the resulting equation.
Then here, we just solve for and we have our general solution.
We can see that answer choice D has an equivalent equation, so answer choice D is the correct answer.
Hope this helps!