Answer the following question regarding the table below. 40 41 43 44 47 47 49 40 42 43 45 47 48 49 40 42 44 45 47 48 49 41 42 44
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Answer:
-5
Step-by-step explanation:
Moving all terms of the quadratic to one side, we have
.
A quadratic has one real solution when the discriminant is equal to 0. In a quadratic , the discriminant is
.
(The discriminant is more commonly known as , but I changed the variable since we already have a
in the quadratic given.)
In the quadratic above, we have ,
, and
. Plugging this into the formula for the discriminant, we have
.
Using the distributive property to expand and simplifying, the expression becomes
Setting the discriminant equal to 0 gives
.
We can then solve the equation as usual: first, divide by 2 on both sides:
.
Squaring both sides gives
,
and subtracting 5 from both sides, we have