As soon as I read this, the words "law of cosines" popped
into my head. I don't have a good intuitive feeling for the
law of cosines, but I went and looked it up (you probably
could have done that), and I found that it's exactly what
you need for this problem.
The "law of cosines" relates the lengths of the sides of any
triangle to the cosine of one of its angles ... just what we need,
since we know all the sides, and we want to find one of the angles.
To find angle-B, the law of cosines says
b² = a² + c² - 2 a c cosine(B)
B = angle-B
b = the side opposite angle-B = 1.4
a, c = the other 2 sides = 1 and 1.9
(1.4)² = (1)² + (1.9)² - (2 x 1 x 1.9) cos(B)
1.96 = (1) + (3.61) - (3.8) cos(B)
Add 3.8 cos(B) from each side:
1.96 + 3.8 cos(B) = 4.61
Subtract 1.96 from each side:
3.8 cos(B) = 2.65
Divide each side by 3.8 :
cos(B) = 0.69737 (rounded)
Whipping out the
trusty calculator:
B = the angle whose cosine is 0.69737
= 45.784° .
Now, for the first time, I'll take a deep breath, then hold it
while I look back at the question and see whether this is
anywhere near one of the choices ...
By gosh ! Choice 'B' is 45.8° ! yay !
I'll bet that's it !
Answer:
Hence the function which has the smallest minimum is: h(x)
Step-by-step explanation:
We are given function f(x) as:
- f(x) = −4 sin(x − 0.5) + 11
We know that the minimum value attained by the sine function is -1 and the maximum value attained by sine function is 1.
so the function f(x) receives the minimum value when sine function attains the maximum value since the term of sine function is subtracted.
Hence, the minimum value of f(x) is: 11-4=7 ( when sine function is equal to 1)
- Also we are given a table of values for function h(x) as:
x y
−2 14
−1 9
0 6
1 5
2 6
3 9
4 14
Hence, the minimum value attained by h(x) is 5. ( when x=1)
- Also we are given function g(x) ; a quadratic function passing through (2,7),(3,6) and (4,7)
so, the equation will be:
Hence on putting these coordinates we will get:
a=1,b=3 and c=7.
Hence the function g(x) is given as:

So,the minimum value attained by g(x) could be seen from the graph is at the point (3,6).
Hence, the minimum value attained by g(x) is 6.
Hence the function which has the smallest minimum is h(x)
If 1 candy bar is 32 1/5 then you would multiply 32 1/5 x 33 =1062.6
≈ 1063 calories