Answer:
6 swimmers in the first heat can be arranged in 1716 different ways.
Step-by-step explanation:
A swim meet has 13 contestants signed up. To calculate the arrangement of first 6 swimmers in first heat we will use combinations because order doesn't matter.
So to select 6 swimmers out of 13 contestants number of different ways
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Therefore, 6 swimmers in the first heat can be arranged in 1716 different ways.
For example if we have 7/10 we have one 0 in the denominator so we move the decimal spot 1 to the left
So:
7.0 becomes 0.70 or .7
To make a decimal into a fraction:
0.32
Just add two zeros to the right and that means 2 0's will be added in the denominator
so:
0.32
32.0/100 or 32/100
Hope that helps :)
Half the x-coefficient is -3, so the equation needs to be rearranged into a form that looks like
x² -6x +(-3)² + [something]
You can get there by adding and subtracting 9 from the original equation.
y = x² -6x +9 +7 -9 . . . . . 9 added and subtracted
y = (x² -6x +9) -2
The quantity in parentheses is a perfect square, so we can write the equation in the desired form as ...
y = (x -3)² -2