Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
If the bricklayer can construct the wall in its entirety in 3 hours, then he can get 1/3 of the job done in an hour.
If the apprentice can get the whole job done in 5 hours, then he can get 1/5 of the job done in an hour. If they both work together on said job, the equation is
and now we solve for x. Multiply everything by the LCM to get rid of the fractions. That would be 15x:
and doing that gives us
5x + 3x = 15 and
8x = 15 so
x = 1.875 hours which is 1 7/8 hours which is also 1 hour and 52 1/2 minutes.
You didn't give the fourth zero, but the answer is still false. If you have a root or an imaginary number as a zero, then its conjugate is also a zero. So if 8i is a zero, then -8i must also be a zero, and if 4i is a zero, then -4i must be a zero, with those zeros and -4, the number of zeroes exceeds the number of zeroes that a fourth degree polynomial can have.
I think the coefficient is the 12, before the variable
