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3 years ago

Find the value of c that makes x^2–6x + c a perfect square trinomial and write as a binomial squared.

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denpristay [2]3 years ago

3 0

Answer: 9

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

The function is $x^2-6x+c$

To make it a perfect square, compare it with $(a-b)^2=a^2+b^2-2ab$

Here,

$x=a,\\-6x=-2ab\\\\\therefore b=3$

So, c must be square of b i.e. 9

$x^2-6x+c\Rightarrow x^2-6x+9\\\Rightarrow (x-3)^2$

Therefore, value of c is 9.

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b) 0% probability that 10 of the tosses will fall heads and 10 will fall tails.

c) 0.1742 = 17.42% probability that 10 of the tosses will fall heads and 10 will fall tails.

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Binomial probability distribution

$P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}$

$C_{n,x} = \frac{n!}{x!(n-x)!}$

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x is the number of successes.
n is the number of trials.
p is the probability of a success on a single trial.

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20 tosses, hence $n = 20$ .
Fair coin, hence $p = 0.5$ .

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$P(X = x) = C_{n,x}.p^{x}.(1-p)^{n-x}$

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Item b:

In a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ , the z-score of a measure X is given by:

$Z = \frac{X - \mu}{\sigma}$

It measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean.
After finding the z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score, which is the percentile of X.
The binomial distribution is the probability of x successes on n trials, with p probability of a success on each trial. It can be approximated to the normal distribution with $\mu = np, \sigma = \sqrt{np(1-p)}$ .

The probability of an exact value is 0, hence 0% probability that 10 of the tosses will fall heads and 10 will fall tails.

Item c:

For the approximation, the mean and the standard deviation are:

$\mu = np = 20(0.5) = 10$

$\sigma = \sqrt{np(1 - p)} = \sqrt{20(0.5)(0.5)} = \sqrt{5}$

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