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3 years ago

HELPPPPPPPPPP and explain

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mina [271]3 years ago

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There is so much controversy about this question on the internet (well not this question exactly but the idea of taking a reciprocal of a discontinuous function).

Some say you can if you make it clear that the point causing the trouble is excluded in some way. Others say that you cannot contemplate the idea. You are creating a meaningless situation with no definition. It really depends on what you have been told about division by 0. There are ways of getting around this, but you are not taking a calculus course and therefore you likely don't have the tools to deal with it. In any event, it does not look to me like you know about limits yet.

Your marker or teacher or tutor can go either way on this problem and be justified in marking you wrong no matter what you do. As instructed I will put what I think should be done in the comment section. And remember, I'm counting noses and going with the majority when I answer this. It's not anything I'm 100% certain of, but neither is anyone else.

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Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

On Martin's first stroke, his golf ball traveled 4/5 of the distance to the hole.

On his second stroke, the ball traveled 79 meters and went into the hole.

Question asked:

How many kilometres from the hole was Martin when he started?

Solution:

Let distance from Martin starting point to the hole in meters = $x$

On Martin's first stroke, ball traveled = $\frac{4}{5} \ of \ total \ distance\ to\ the\ hole$

$=\frac{4}{5} \times x=\frac{4x}{5}$

On his second stroke, the ball traveled and went to the hole = 79 meters

Total distance from starting point to the hole = Ball traveled from first stroke + Ball traveled from second stroke

$x=\frac{4x}{5} +79\\ \\ Subtracting\ both\ sides\ by \ \frac{4x}{5}\\ \\ x- \frac{4x}{5}= \frac{4x}{5}- \frac{4x}{5}+79\\ \\ \frac{5x-4x}{5} =79\\ \\ By \ cross\ multiplication\\ \\ x=79\times5\\ \\ x=395\ meters$

Now, convert it into kilometre:

1000 meter = 1 km

1 meter = $\frac{1}{1000}$

395 meters = $\frac{1}{1000}\times395=0.395\ kilometre$

Thus, there are 0.395 kilometre distance from Martin starting point to the hole.

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3 years ago

Here are the first four terms of a sequence.

Nataly_w [17]

Answer:

aₙ = 2n² + n + 1

Step-by-step explanation:

We observe that the difference of terms is 4, 7 and 15 and next level difference is 4. It means the sequence is quadratic.

We can compare this with simple quadratic sequence

1, 4, 9, 16

and find out that doubling each term gives us

2, 8, 18, 32

This is close to our sequence, write the terms as follows to find exact rule

The first term:

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The second term

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The third term:

a₃ = 22 = 2*3² + 4 = 2*3² + 3 + 1

The fourth term:

a₄ = 37 = 2*4² + 5 = 2*4² + 4 + 1

The nth term as per observation above is:

aₙ = 2n² + n + 1

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Harman [31]

Answer:

(a)Revenue function, $R(x)=580x-x^2$

Marginal Revenue function, R'(x)=580-2x

(b)Fixed cost =900 .

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(d)x=4

Step-by-step explanation:

Part A

Price Function $= 580 - 10x$

The revenue function

$R(x)=x\cdot (580-10x)\\R(x)=580x-x^2$

The marginal revenue function

$\dfrac{dR}{dx}= \dfrac{d}{dx}(R(x))=\dfrac{d}{dx}(580x-x^2)=580-2x\\R'(x)=580-2x$

Part B

(Fixed Cost)

The total cost function of the company is given by $c=(30+5x)^2$

We expand the expression

$(30+5x)^2=(30+5x)(30+5x)=900+300x+25x^2$

Therefore, the fixed cost is 900 .

Marginal Cost Function

If $c=900+300x+25x^2$

Marginal Cost Function, $\frac{dc}{dx}= (900+300x+25x^2)'=300+50x$

Part C

Profit Function

Profit=Revenue -Total cost

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Part D

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In a geometric sequence, each intermediate term is the geometric mean of the term before it and the term after it.

So we want to find a and b such that 5, a, b, 135 is a geometric sequence.

If the common ratio is r then:

a=5rb=ar=5r2135=br=5r3

Hence r3=1355=27, so r=3√27=3

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