13. The sum of two numbers is 17 and their difference is 29. What are the two numbers?
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well, we know the piece-wise function is
hmmm so what's f(-1), namely what is f(x) when x = -1?
well, when x = -1, hmm -1 is less than 0, so the subfunction that applies to that will be when "x" is less than 0, namely the part of 7x + 10, so we can say
f(-1) = 7(-1) + 10
f(-1) = 3
so hmm what's f(0) or namely, what's f(x) when x = 0?
well, what subfunction applies when x = 0? well, it has to be the subfunction with "x greater or <u>equals</u> to 0", x ⩾ 0, so then is 7x + 20
f(0) = 7(0) + 20
f(0) = 20.
We are given
we are given
At n=1:
we can plug n=1 into formula
At n=2:
we can plug n=2 into formula
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