Answer: 81
To get this answer, you do two things
1) Take half of the x coefficient 18 to get 9
2) Square the result from the previous step to get 9^2 = 9*9 = 81
This value is added on to get x^2+18x+81 which factors to (x+9)^2 confirming we have a perfect square trinomial
Answer:
24 - 24 = 0 (carols age past tense)
24 x 4 = 96
96 - 24 = 72 (present tense)
carol is now 72 yr
After the division, we get 8.99031476998. This rounds to <u>9</u> as a whole number, which is the answer.
When rounding to a whole number, the digits following the decimal decide what number it rounds to. If it is 0-4 it rounds to whatever the whole number currently is E.G.
8.1 would round to 8
But if its 5-9 it rounds to one above, like in our current case.
8.5 rounds to 9.
42.414 rounds to 42.
42.94149124 rounds to 43.
