A line through the origin has a slope of 1 / 3. Carlos thinks the slope of a perpendicular line at the origin will be 3.
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Answer:
Carlos is incorrect.
Step-by-step explanation:
We have been given that a line through the origin has a slope of . Carlos thinks the slope of a perpendicular line at the origin will be 3.
We know that the slope of a perpendicular line to a given line is always negative reciprocal of the slope of the given line.
The slope of the perpendicular line at the origin will be negative reciprocal of .
Let us find negative reciprocal of as:
Since the slope of a perpendicular line at the origin is , therefore, Carlos is incorrect.
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Answer:
• zero: -4, -4/3, 7
• positive: -4 < x < -4/3 . . . or 7 < x
• negative: x < -4 . . . or -4/3 < x < 7
Step-by-step explanation:
Zeros of the function are at x=-4, -4/3, +7. These are the values that make each of the individual factors be zero. For example, x-7=0 when x=7.
The function will be negative for x-values left of an odd number of zeros. It will be positive for x-values left of an even number of zeros (including left of no zeros, which is to say right of all zeros). This is because the sign of the factor giving rise to the zero changes for x-values on either side of that zero. (This is not true for zeros with even multiplicity, as the sign does not change at those.)
