Uhh..not in a mood for a meet, k? Maybe later hun~~
You have not given us any of the steps that Ricardo took to simplify the
expression, and you also haven't given us the list of choices that includes
the description of his mistake, so you're batting O for two so far.
Other than those minor details, the question is intriguing, and it certainly
draws me in.
If Ricardo made a mistake in simplifying that expression, I'm going to say that
it was most likely in the process of removing the parentheses in the middle.
Now you understand that this is all guess-work, because of all the stuff that you
left out when you copied the question, but I think he probably forgot that the 3x
operates on everything inside the parentheses.
He probably wrote that 3x (x-3) is
either 3x² - 3
or x - 9x .
In reality, when properly simplified,
3x (x - 3) = 3x² - 9x .
This is exponential decay which can be expressed as:
y=ab^t, y=final value, a=initial value, b=rate, t=time
In this case a=25000, r=(100-20)/100=0.8 so
y=25000(0.8^t), so in 4.5 years...
y=25000(0.8^4.5)
y≈$9158.93 (to nearest cent)
Answer:
18° and 72°
Step-by-step explanation:
Complimentary angles form 90°
We have an angle (x) 4 times larger than the other (y).
Well actually, a system of equations isn't required, so forget about x and y, just divide 90 by 5. This gives you 18, one of the angle's measurements is 18°. Multiply 18 by 4 and get 72. The other angle's measurement is 72°.
We have been given an expression 
. We are asked to find the solution to our given expression expressed as scientific notation.
Let us simplify our given expression.
Using exponent property 
, we will get:
Now to write our answer in scientific notation, we need our 1st multiple between 1 and 10. So we will rewrite our expression as:
Therefore, our required solution would be .
