I do believe that Ben's statement is always true because of the fact that when you divide a positive by a negative, or a negative by a positive, it will always equal a negative. For the equation 5.4/-6.8 the answer is -0.79411764705. And the equation -6.8/5.4 is equal to -1.25925925926. It will always equal to less then zero, except when you divide by zero.
Answer:
p(x)= (x+1)(x+2)(x-3)(x-1)
then,multiplying two two terms
(x^2 +2x+x+2)(x^2-x-3x+3)
(x^2+3x+2)(x^2-4x+3)
x^4- 4x^3+3x^2 +3x^3-12x^2+9x+2x^2-8x+6)
x^4-x^3-7x^2+x+6
Let x= number rows
Then x + 5 = number of seats per row
x(x+5) = 126
X^2 + 5x = 126
x^2 + 5x -126 = 0; now factor or use quadratic:
(x+14)(x-9) = 0; so the answers are either -14, or 9, and since -14 is not possible in this case because you can't have a negative number of rows, the answer is 9 rows.
Check work: number of rows = 9, number of seats per row = 9+ 5= 14, and 9 x 14 = 126
4/2 because 4/2=2 that is an integer
