Answer:
Samuel slept for 1/4 of the distance.
Step-by-step explanation:
The information provided are:
- Samuel fell asleep halfway home.
- He didn't wake up until he still had half as far to go as he had already
- gone while asleep.
Consider that the total distance covered was 1.
Then from the first point we know that Samuel fell asleep after covering a distance of 1/2.
It is provided that he woke up only after covering half of the remaining distance.
That is, he slept for 1/4 of the remaining distance.
Thus, Samuel was asleep for 1/4th of the entire trip home.
In order to determine the vertex of this, you can complete the square. To do that, first set the equation equal to 0, then move the -35 over to the other side by adding. That gives us
. Now we can complete the square. Do this by taking half of the linear term, squaring it, and adding it in to both sides. Our linear term is 2x. Half of 2 is 1, and 1 squared is 1. So we add 1 to both sides, creating something that looks like this:
. We will do the math on the right and get 36, and the left will be expressed as the perfect square binomial we created by doing this whole process.
. Now move the 36 over by subtraction and set it back to equal y and your vertex is apparent. It is (1, -36). You find the x-intercepts when y = 0. That means you need to set your original equation equal to zero and factor it. The easiest, surest way to do this is to use the quadratic formula. Doing that gives us x values of 7 and -5. And you're done!
Answer: $3.8 per pound of food.
Step-by-step explanation: 18.24 divided by 4.8
The formula for the perimeter of a rectangle is P = 2L + 2W, where L is the length and W is the width. Because we don't know either the length or the width we can't solve the problem...too many unknowns. BUT we do have some information that will help with this problem. We are told that the length is 2 feet longer than the width, so we can use that: L = W+2. Now we can make the substitution into the formula along with the value for the perimeter that was given to us: 36=2(W+2) + 2W, and 36 = 2W + 4 + 2W; 36 = 4W + 4; 32 = 4W and W = 8. Now go back to where you said that the length is 2 feet longer than the width. If the width is 8, then 8+2 = 10 for the length.
