Answer:
- x = 0 or 1
- x = ±i/4
- x = -5 (twice)
Step-by-step explanation:
Factoring is aided by having the equations in standard form. The first step in each case is to put the equations in that form. The zero product property tells you that a product is zero when a factor is zero. The solutions are the values of x that make the factors zero.
1. x^2 -x = 0
x(x -1) = 0 . . . . . x = 0 or 1
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2. 16x^2 +1 = 0
This is the "difference of squares" ...
(4x)^2 - (i)^2 = 0
(4x -i)(4x +i) = 0 . . . . . x = -i/4 or i/4 (zeros are complex)
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3. x^2 +10x +25 = 0
(x +5)(x +5) = 0 . . . . . x = -5 with multiplicity 2
You can see how this works by thinking through what's going on.
In the first year the population declines by 3%. So the population at the end of the first year is the starting population (1200) minus the decline: 1200 minus 3% of 1200. 3% of 1200 is the same as .03 * 1200. So the population at the end of the first year is 1200 - .03 * 1200. That can be written as 1200 * (1 - .03), or 1200 * 0.97
What about the second year? The population starts at 1200 * 0.97. It declines by 3% again. But 3% of what??? The decline is based on the population at the beginning of the year, NOT based no the original population. So the decline in the second year is 0.03 * (1200 * 0.97). And just as in the first year, the population at the end of the second year is the population at the beginning of the second year minus the decline in the second year. So that's 1200 * 0.97 - 0.03 * (1200 * 0.97), which is equal to 1200 * 0.97 (1 - 0.03) = 1200 * 0.97 * 0.97 = 1200 * 0.972.
So there's a pattern. If you worked out the third year, you'd see that the population ends up as 1200 * 0.973, and it would keep going like that.
So the population after x years is 1200 * 0.97x
Step-by-step explanation:
The scientific notation of any number is given by :
a is any real no and b is any integer
The scientific notation of 345,000,000 should be 
but Jorden wrote 34.5×10⁷. He is incorrect. He should have shifted decimal before 4 such that power of 10 becomes 8.
Answer:
I believe that something is missing.
Step-by-step explanation:
