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Anna35 [415]
3 years ago
13

When is it most appropriate to use the completing the square method to solve a quadratic equation?

Mathematics
1 answer:
mash [69]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

Don't forget to include a ± sign in your equation once you have taken the square root. Next, if the coefficient of the squared term is 1 and the coefficient of the linear (middle) term is even, completing the square is a good method to use. Finally, the quadratic formula will work on any quadratic equation.

Step-by-step explanation:

x² + 4x = 15 can be solved best using the completing the square method.

2x(x−3)=0 can be best solved using the zero product property.

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(my edit) it is not that 2/15 is wrong (although it is not entirely right).
1/3 is the correct answer if you assume that what happened during the first draw has nothing to do with what will happen on the second. It is like saying if you throw 11 heads in a row with a fair coin, what are the chances of throwing a heads on the 12th throw? The answer is 1/2. That is the same kind of question you have asked.

The two of us who have responded have really responded to what are the chances of drawing 2 white chips. The question really does not restrict us in a way that prevents us from saying that. I'll stick with
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The semi right answer is B <<<<---- 

If my reasoning bothers anybody, I'll reedit again. I'm only leaving it because sometimes a mistake is more instructive than a given answer.
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Answer:

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And rounded up we have that n=2663

Step-by-step explanation:

Previous concepts

A confidence interval is "a range of values that’s likely to include a population value with a certain degree of confidence. It is often expressed a % whereby a population means lies between an upper and lower interval".  

The margin of error is the range of values below and above the sample statistic in a confidence interval.  

Normal distribution, is a "probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean".  

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The margin of error for the proportion interval is given by this formula:  

ME=z_{\alpha/2}\sqrt{\frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{n}}    (a)  

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Solution for 40 is what percent of 125:

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( 40*100):125 =

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Now we have: 40 is what percent of 125 = 32

Question: 40 is what percent of 125?

Percentage solution with steps:

Step 1: We make the assumption that 125 is 100% since it is our output value.

Step 2: We next represent the value we seek with $x$x​.

Step 3: From step 1, it follows that $100\%=125$100%=125​.

Step 4: In the same vein, $x\%=40$x%=40​.

Step 5: This gives us a pair of simple equations:

$100\%=125(1)$100%=125(1)​.

$x\%=40(2)$x%=40(2)​.

Step 6: By simply dividing equation 1 by equation 2 and taking note of the fact that both the LHS
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