Find the slope of the line graphed below.
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Answer:
Given Polynomial:
Factors of Coefficient of terms
80 = 5 × 16
32 = 2 × 16
48 = 3 × 16
Common factor of the coefficient of all term is 16.
Each term contain variable. So the Minimum power of b is common from all terms.
Common from all variable part comes b².
So, Common factor of the polynomial = 16b²
⇒ 16b² ( 5b² ) - 16b² ( 2c³ ) + 16b² ( 3b²c )
⇒ 16b² ( 5b² - 2c³ + 3b²c )
Therefore, Statements that are true about David's word are:
The GCF of the coefficients is correct.
The variable c is not common to all terms, so a power of c should not have been factored out.
In step 6, David applied the distributive property
Answers:
- Part a)
- Part b) 3
- Part c) 2.24
- Part d) 1.58
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Work Shown:
Part (a)
The origin is the point (0,0) which we'll make the first point, so let (x1,y1) = (0,0)
The other point is of the form (x,y) where y = x^2-3. So the point can be stated as (x2,y2) = (x,y). We'll replace y with x^2-3
We apply the distance formula to say...
We could expand things out and combine like terms, but that's just extra unneeded work in my opinion.
Saying is the same as writing d = sqrt(x^2-(x^2-3)^2)
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Part (b)
Plug in x = 0 and you should find the following
This says that the point (x,y) = (0,3) is 3 units away from the origin (0,0).
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Part (c)
Repeat for x = 1
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Part (d)
Graph the d(x) function found back in part (a)
Use the minimum function on your graphing calculator to find the lowest point such that x > 0.
See the diagram below. I used GeoGebra to make the graph. Desmos probably has a similar feature (but I'm not entirely sure). If you have a TI83 or TI84, then your calculator has the minimum function feature.
The red point of this diagram is what we're after. That point is approximately (1.58, 1.66)
This means the smallest d can get is d = 1.66 and it happens when x = 1.58 approximately.
Slope-intercept form is , where
is the slope and
is the y-intercept.
, so change the equation to represent this.
Great! Now the function is in slope-intercept form, so we can just see that , or the slope, is equal to