Answer:
Rate of Change = -77.9 feet/year
My interpretation: "Is Bad."
Step-by-step explanation:
The rate of change is the number of feet that Lake Powell dropped, divided by the number of years the drop took place. We want a value with a unit of feet/year.
<u>Year</u> <u>Feet</u>
1999 3893
2005 3425.6
<u>Change</u>
Year = (2005 - 1999) or 6 years
Feet = (3425.6 - 3893) or -467.4 feet
Rate of Change = (-467.4 feet)/(6 years)
Rate of Change = -77.9 feet/year
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FYI: Lake Powell is 22.39 feet lower today (June 23, 2022) than it was 1 year ago.
Answer:
3n-8
Step-by-step explanation:
Let n be our number
3 times n
3n
eight less than
3n-8
we'll start off by grouping some

so we have a missing guy at the end in order to get the a perfect square trinomial from that group, hmmm, what is it anyway?
well, let's recall that a perfect square trinomial is

so we know that the middle term in the trinomial, is really 2 times the other two without the exponent, well, in our case, the middle term is just "x", well is really -x, but we'll add the minus later, we only use the positive coefficient and variable, so we'll use "x" to find the last term.

so, there's our fellow, however, let's recall that all we're doing is borrowing from our very good friend Mr Zero, 0, so if we add (1/2)², we also have to subtract (1/2)²
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