Answer:
7/10
Step-by-step explanation:
I've attached an image on how you can use the diagram they gave you.
If you color in 7/10s and 7/12s you'll notice that 7/10s is greater.
This is because 1/10 of the whole is greater than 1/12 of the whole.
For 1/10, the whole is being divided into 10, so it equals 0.1.
On the other hand, in 1/12, the whole is being divided by 12, so a part equals 0.083
0.1 is greater than 0.083, so 7 of 0.1 is greater than 7 of 0.083
the correct answer should be (b) 6 is extraneous.
If you look at the second row of the solution you see (x-6) as a factor in one of the denominators. That's a problem: if 6 were a solution this denominator would become 0. But denominators being 0 is bad (undefined), so while 6 comes out of the algebraic manipulation as a solution, it is invalid, or extraneous.
-3 is a fine solution.
Answer:
Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; in terms of energy, each whole number increase corresponds to an increase of about 31.6 times the amount of energy released, and each increase of 0.2 corresponds to approximately a doubling of the energy released.
Step-by-step explanation:
<span>9x-4=7-2x <em>/+2x
</em><em />11x-4=7 <em>/+4
</em><em />11x=11 <em>/:11
</em>x=1<em>
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