Linda's penny bank is 2/3 full. After she removes 80 pennies, it is 1/2 full. How many pennies can Linda's bank hold?
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Answer:
7 1/17
Step-by-step explanation:
A figure can be helpful.
The inscribed semicircle has its center at the midpoint of th base. It is tangent to the side of the isosceles triangle, so a radius makes a 90° angle there.
The long side of the isosceles triangle can be found from the Pythagorean theorem to be ...
BC² = BD² +CD²
BC² = 8² +15² = 289
BC = √289 = 17
The radius mentioned (DE) creates right triangles that are similar to ∆BCD. In particular, we have ...
(long side)/(hypotenuse) = DE/BD = CD/BC
DE = BD·CD/BC = 8·15/17
DE = 7 1/17 ≈ 7.059
<h3>Answer is 0</h3>
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Explanation:
Logarithms are used to solve exponential equations. Specifically if you have a variable in the exponent, then you use a log to isolate the variable.
If we set the given log expression to x, then we can rewrite it into 8^x = 1. The only value of x that works is x = 0.
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Or put another way,
8^x = 1
8^x = 8^0 ... replace the 1 with 8^0
x = 0 ... the bases are equal (to 8) so the exponents must be equal
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You can use the change of base formula to directly calculate this log