Nick starts with 20 milligrams of a radioactive substance. The amount of the substance decreases by 14 each week for a number of
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Answer:
Eric's expression is :
and Andrea's is :
In Eric's expression, 20 represents the initial amount of substance with which he has started the experiment. is the amount of substance left after each time period (in this case, each week).The variable w in this case represents the number of weeks.
Andrea's expression can be written as :
The one outside of parentheses represents the initial amount of the substance. The one inside of parentheses represents 100% of the original amount of the substance. 0.5 represents the 50% of the substance that is lost each time period. The variable w in this case represents the number of weeks.
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Explanation:
Here, we want to use the factor theorem to check if the given linear expression is a factor of the binomial
Now, according to the factor theorem, a factor of a polynomial would leave no remainder when divided by it
Mathematically, it means when we substitute the factor value into the polynomial, it is expected that the remainder is zero is the substituted is a factor of the polynomial
We set x-2 to zero:
Now, we substitute 2 into the polynomial as follows:
There is a remainder of -28 and thus, the linear factor is not a factor of the binomial