(-4) is the same as x, so looking the conditions that are the results for the function, you realize:

-2 is the result of the function to the values of X that are under -3: the result will be -2 if x < -3

x < -3 ; x = -4 ; -4 < -3 (it's true), in other words, -4 is less than -3, so f(-4) = -2

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3 years ago

The function y = x * ln(x + e) has two distinct x intercepts. One is at x = a and the other is at x = b. The value of a + b is

Snezhnost [94]

As points, x-intercepts take the form $(x,0)$ , so to find the intercepts we can set $y=0$ and solve for $x$ .

$x\ln(x+e)=0\implies\begin{cases}x=0\\\ln(x+e)=0\end{cases}$

From the first equation alone, we already know that $x=0$ is a solution, which means one intercept is $(0,0)$ .

The second equation gives

$\ln(x+e)=0\implies e^{\ln(x+e)}=e^0\implies x+e=1\implies x=1-e$

so that the second intercept occurs at $(1-e,0)$ .

So if $a=0$ and $b=1-e$ , we have $a+b=1-e$ , giving C as the answer.

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2 years ago