14. Add the line times the outside number
X(X+4)= (2√3)^2
X^2+4X= 4√9
X^2+4X= 4times 3
X^2+4X=12
X^2+4X-12=0
(X+6)(X-2)=0
X=-6 X=2
Answe can't be negative so it's X=2
No If it was 4 to 3 then yes but 4 can't be multiplied by anything to equal 9
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
I am assuming the tank starts empty. It means that in 1 hour the tank has half that water, or 3600 gallons. And the good thing of lines passing through 0.0 is that the value at 1 IS the slope we need. ie 3600.
At this point it's easy to find that if in 2 hours it filled 1/10th of the tank, in 20 hours the tank will be full.
Graph done with paint, obviously not to scale.
So we are given two points that the line crosses, the origin and (9, -3), we can calculate the slope m of the line with these data, dividing the y segment by the x segment:
m = (-3 - 0)/(9 - 0) = -3/9
m = -1/3
then we can use the point slope line equation to find the line equation, lets use the point origin (0,0) to do so:
y - y1 = m(x - x1), where x1, y1 are the coordinates of a point that the line crosses:
y - 0 = (-1/3)(x - 0)
y = <span>(-1/3)x
so this is the equation of the line, slope -1/3 and y intercept 0</span>
