Hello there! An example problem for this could be:
Emile is looking for a cell-phone plan. His two options are one that costs $40 up front, and costs $0.01 per text, represented by x. The second one is 15 dollars up front and costs $0.06 for each text message. Emile figures that for the first package he has to send 500 texts or more to make it less than the second one.
1. 45.8-7.48=38.32 in
2. 5/6-3/4=10/12-9/12= 1/12 miles farther
The expected value is $38.46.
The probability of drawing a 10 from any suit is 4/52. Multiply this by the earnings, 500:
4/52(500) = 2000/52 = 38.46
A geometry app shows lengths that add up to 27.4 units.
The Pythagorean theorem can be used to find the lengths of the segments. Each length is the square root of the sum of squares of the difference in x-coordinates and the difference in y-coordinates.
segment AB: length = √(3²+8²) = √73 ≈ 8.544
segment BC: length = √(7²+4²) = √65 ≈ 8.062
segment CA: length = √(10²+4²) = √116 ≈ 10.770
Then the total perimeter is the sum of these lengths:
... 8.544 +8.062 +10.770 = 27.376 ≈ 27.4 . . . . units