Answer:
The conjecture cannot work for any negative numbers, It works for x > 1.3.
Step-by-step explanation:
An odd power preserves the sign. For |x| > 1, the power increases the magnitude. For x < 0, adding -2 only increases the magnitude more. A negative number of larger magnitude will not be "greater than" the reference. It will be "less than."
It only takes a counterexample to show the conjecture is incorrect.
x^5 -2 ?? x
(-2)^5 -2 ?? (-2)
-32 -2 ?? -2
-34 < -2 . . . . . . not greater than
Hello.
Describing to someone your height; It would be nonsense telling you have -1 meter, for example.
Describing your age; An age of -3 years is meaningless.
Counting the number of inhabitants in a city. Again, a city with -3000 inhabitants can not exist.
Answer:
550
Step-by-step explanation:
We aren't given that they are consecutive so lets just pretend the numbers are x, y, z , and r.
We are given x+y+z+r=1320
We are also given that y+z+r=.4x+x
Simplifying my second equation gives us y+z+r=1.4x. I'm going to plug this into first equation giving me
x+1.4x=1320
2.4x=1320
So x=1320/2.4=550
A.) (-2,-4)
(7+3)/2=5, (10+2)/2=6
(-7+5,-10+6)
(-2,-4)
b.)r^2=244
10^2+12^2=244
r=2(61)^(1/2)
c.)(x+2)^2+(y+4)^2=244