Samuel and Leticia are playing a game. After the first round of the game, Samuel's score was -19 and Leticias score was 21. The
score with the greater absolute value wins each round. Who won the first round? Explain
1 answer:
Answer: Leticia won the first round
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Your teacher is basically asking "which value is further from zero on the number line?". The value -19 is 19 units away from zero; while 21 is 21 units away from zero.
See the attached image below. Each "space" is a distance of 1
Absolute value measures distance along the number line. Distance is never negative. In terms of notation, you would say
|-19| = 19 and |21| = 21
The outputs 19 and 21 are then compared. We see that 21 is larger, so therefore, Leticia has the higher score and she won the first round.
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other x values are -5,-4
Step-by-step explanation:
f(x)=0 for x=−6
Apply synthetic division to get the quotient . using that we find other two values of x
-6 1 15 74 120
0 -6 - 54 -120
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1 9 20 0
the quotient is
now factor the left hand side, product is 20 and sum is 9
So other x values are -5,-4
Let's use the variable x to represent the length of the first and second pieces.
If the third piece has twice the length of the first and second, its length is 2x.
If the fourth piece has half the length of the first and second, its length is 0.5*x.
Adding all four pieces and equating to 54 inches, we have:
So the length of each piece is:
12 inches, 12 inches, 24 inches and 6 inches.