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The explanation for this is one of my favorite pieces of mathematical reasoning. First, let's thing about distance; what's the shortest distance between two points? <em>A straight line</em>. If we just drew a straight line between A and B, though, we'd be missing a crucial element of the original problem: we also need to pass through a point on the line (the "river"). Here's where the mathemagic comes in.
If we take the point B and <em>reflect it over the line</em>, creating the point B' (see picture 1), we can draw a line straight from A to B' that passes through a point on the line. Notice the symmetry here; the distance from the intersection point to B' is<em> the same as its distance to B</em>. So, if we reflect that segment back up, we'll have a path to B, and because it came from of the line segment AB', we know that it's <em>the shortest possible distance that includes a point on the line</em>.
If we apply this same process to our picture, we see that the line segment AB' crosses the line at the point (1, 1)
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The possible rational roots are:
EXPLANATION
According to the rational root theorem, the possible rational roots of the polynomial,
are all the possible factors of the constant term divided by all the possible factors of the coefficient of the highest degree of the polynomial.
Therefore we examine the numerator and denominator of the options provided to see if they are factors of 10 and 4 respectively.
For
, we can see that 1 is a factor of 10 and 2 is a factor of 4, hence it is a possible rational root.
The same thing applies to also.
As for
, 2 is a factor of 10 but 5 is not a factor of 2, hence it is not a possible rational root.