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4 years ago

A shooting star forms a right triangle with the Earth and the Sun, as shown below:

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frez [133]4 years ago

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The positions of the sun, earth and shooting star form a right angled triangle, where distance between earth and sun is 'y', and the angle 'x°' is given

Now, in a right angled triangle using trigonometry, we can determine a side of the triangle is one of the sides and one of the angles is known

Here, if we use cos x = $\frac{Base}{Hypotenuse}$ we can determine the distance between the shooting star and the sun. This can be done because we know that the base is 'y', the angle is x° and the hypotenuse represents the distance between the sun and the shooting star

Note: cos values for each x are definite.

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BaLLatris [955]

a) The polynomial in expanded form is $f(x) = x^{3}-2\cdot x^{2}-21\cdot x -18$ .

b) The slant asymptote is represented by the linear function is $y = -x + 1$ .

c) There is a discontinuity at $x = 2$ with a slant asymptote.

a) In this question we are going to use the Factor Theorem, which establishes that polynomial are the result of products of binomials of the form $x-r_{i}$ , where $r_{i}$ is the i-th root of the polynomial and the grade is equal to the quantity of roots. Therefore, the polynomial $f(x)$ has the following form:

$f(x) = (x-6)\cdot (x+1)\cdot (x+3)$

And the expanded form is obtained by some algebraic handling:

$f(x) = (x-6)\cdot (x^{2}+4\cdot x +3)$

$f(x) = x\cdot (x^{2}+4\cdot x + 3)-6\cdot (x^{2}+4\cdot x +3)$

$f(x) = x^{3}+4\cdot x^{2}+3\cdot x -6\cdot x^{2}-24\cdot x -18$

$f(x) = x^{3}-2\cdot x^{2}-21\cdot x -18$ (1)

The polynomial in expanded form is $f(x) = x^{3}-2\cdot x^{2}-21\cdot x -18$ .

b) In this question we divide the polynomial found in a) (in factor form) by the polynomial $x^{2}-x -2$ (also in factor form). That is:

$g(x) = \frac{(x-6)\cdot (x+1)\cdot (x+3)}{(x-2)\cdot (x+1)}$

$g(x) = \frac{(x-6)\cdot (x+3)}{x-2}$ (2)

The slant asymptote is defined by linear function, whose slope ( $m$ ) and intercept ( $b$ ) are determined by the following expressions:

$m = \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} \frac{g(x)}{x}$ (3)

$b = \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} [g(x)-x]$ (4)

If $g(x) = \frac{(x-6)\cdot (x+3)}{x-2}$ , then the equation of the slant asymptote is:

$m = \lim_{x \to 2} \frac{(x-6)\cdot (x+3)}{x\cdot (x-2)}$

$m = \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} \left(\frac{x^{2}-3\cdot x -18}{x^{2}-2\cdot x} \right)$

$m = 1$

$b = \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} \left(\frac{x^{2}-3\cdot x -18}{x-2}-x \right)$

$b = \lim_{x \to \pm \infty} \left(\frac{x^{2}-3\cdot x - 18-x^{2}+2\cdot x}{x-2}\right)$

$b = \lim_{n \to \infty} \left(\frac{-x-18}{x-2} \right)$

$b = -1$

The slant asymptote is represented by the linear function is $y = -x + 1$ .

c) The number of discontinuities in rational functions is equal to the number of binomials in the denominator, which was determined in b). Hence, we have a discontinuity at $x = 2$ with a slant asymptote.

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2 years ago

Mr. Rivera can grade 18 math teat in 15minutes. What is the teachers unit rate?

Andru [333]

In this question, you're trying to find the unit rate in which the teacher can grade tests.

A unit rate is another word for "rate of change".

This means that we have to find how many tests the teacher could grade in 1 minute.

To find the unit rate, divide 18 by 15

18 ÷ 15 = 1.2

This means that Mr. Rivera can grade 1.2 tests in 1 minute.

Answer:

1.2 tests

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3 years ago

Zoe and Hannah share tips in the ratio 3:7. Last week Zoe recieved £24. How much did Hannah recieve last week?

Mrrafil [7]

Zoe to Hannah is 3 to 7.
We want to know x.
24 to x
three goes into 24 eight times so multiply 7 by eight
x=56

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3 years ago

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Gina has an meeting in 45 min. She is driving at a rate of 30 mi/h. If she is 24 mi away, will she arrive on time? If not, how e

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3 years ago

Help someoneee!!!! <br> ill give a brainliest

Serjik [45]

Answer:

-13.5

Step-by-step explanation:

-4/3w=18

You would need to get the w by itself on one side so the easiest way to do so would be to divide both sides my -4/3.

This would give you an answer of w= -27/2 or w= -13.5

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