Answer:
║x - 175,000║≤ 20,000
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x be the amount the Fraziers are willing to pay. Since the house costs $175,000 and they are willing to deviate from this price no more than $20,000, so x = $175,000 ± $20,000.
So, x - 175,000 = ± 20000
║x - 175,000║= 20,000
But we require
║x - 175,000║≤ 20,000
which is our required open sentence.
Answer:
True. The absolute value produces a positive value, but then when you negate that value, it would always be negative. What's important is we're not taking the negative of the number being absolute valued itself, but rather we're taking a negative of the result.
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
56/8 = 7 pieces of paper
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
Choice b.
.
Step-by-step explanation:
The highest power of the variable 
in this polynomial is 
. In other words, this polynomial is quadratic.
It is thus possible to apply the quadratic formula to find the "roots" of this polynomial. (A root of a polynomial is a value of the variable that would set the polynomial to 
.)
After finding these roots, it would be possible to factorize this polynomial using the Factor Theorem.
Apply the quadratic formula to find the two roots that would set this quadratic polynomial to . The discriminant of this polynomial is 
.
.
Similarly:
.
By the Factor Theorem, if 
is a root of a polynomial, then 
would be a factor of that polynomial. Note the minus sign between and 
.
- The root
corresponds to the factor 
, which simplifies to 
. - The root
corresponds to the factor 
, which simplifies to 
.
Verify that 
indeed expands to the original polynomial:
.
