To find the average number of customers for dinner, use the simple ratio of 5 lunch customers for every 8 dinner customers.
Because there are 40 lunch customers, this is eight groups of five lunch customers. This means you will need 8 groups of 8 dinner customers to make it equivalent.
8 x 8 = 64
There is an average of 64 customers for dinner.
Quadratic formula is x = -b+ or- sq rt b^2-4ac / 2a
a=2 b=5 c=-3
-5 +or- sqrt 5^2-4(2)(-3) / 2(2)
-5 +or- sqrt 49/ 4
-5 + 7 /4 = 2/4 = 1/2
-5 - 7 /4 = -12/4 = -3
Factoring a*c is 2*-3 =-6
Factors of -6 that add to 5 are 6 and -1
Split 5x into +6x-1x
2x^2+6x-1x-3 and group
2x(x+3)-1(x+3)
(x+3)(2x-1)=0
x+3=0 gives x=-3
2x-1=0 gives x=1/2
The answer is true because the X (to the right) values does not repeat itself
