This question was once asked before so I will put it here.
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "x = 2; a = 5; b = 3" A 5 inch tall bamboo shoot doubles in height every 3 days. If the equation y=ab^x, where x is the number of doubling periods, represents the height of the bamboo shoot.
Since there isn't a line under the < sign, this means that we used a dotted or dashed line. The dotted or dashed line indicates that we do NOT include the boundary as part of the solution set.
Since y is isolated and we have a less than sign, this means we shade below the dashed/dotted boundary line. Specifically, the boundary line is the graph of y = 2x+1. This boundary line goes through (0,1) and (1,3). Again, points on this boundary line are NOT part of the solution set.
So in summary we have:
A dashed or dotted boundary line
The shaded region is below the dashed/dotted boundary line.
9 is in parentheses therefore it's elevated above 3 that means you have to do operations on it first.
3 + (-9) = -6
The sum is negative.
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