The greater of two consecutive even integers is 6 less than three times the lesser. Find the integers.
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Intersection of the first two lines:
Multiply the first equation by 4 and the second by 5:
Subtract the two equations:
Plug this value for y in one of the equation, for example the first:
So, the first point of intersection is
We can find the intersection of the other two lines in the same way: we start with
Use the fact that x and y are the same to rewrite the second equation as
And since x and y are the same, the second point is
So, we're looking for a line passing through and
. We may use the formula to find the equation of a line knowing two of its points, but in this case it is very clear that both points have the same coordinates, so the line must be
In the attached figure, line is light green, line
is dark green, and their intersection is point A.
Simiarly, line is red, line
is orange, and their intersection is B.
As you can see, the line connecting A and B is the red line itself.
Scientific notation implies that all the zeros are taken away and replaced with a 10 raised to whatever appropriate power would be necessary to make the number in scientific notation equal to the original number.
In the number 780,000,000, we can see that there are 7 zeros, but the number before the zeros has two digits, so we need to tuck the decimal point in there, because the number has to be between 1 and 10 for math reasons.
7.8 ... but what do we raise it to? We know it has to be 10, but to what power? Well, we just count how many places to the left the decimal point has traveled. From the original number, the decimal point shifted 8 places to the left, so that is the number that we will raise the 10 to.
The final number looks like this:
780,000,000 in scientific notation is <span>
Hope that helped =)</span>
In the number 780,000,000, we can see that there are 7 zeros, but the number before the zeros has two digits, so we need to tuck the decimal point in there, because the number has to be between 1 and 10 for math reasons.
7.8 ... but what do we raise it to? We know it has to be 10, but to what power? Well, we just count how many places to the left the decimal point has traveled. From the original number, the decimal point shifted 8 places to the left, so that is the number that we will raise the 10 to.
The final number looks like this:
780,000,000 in scientific notation is <span>
Hope that helped =)</span>
