It approximately the answer (17) if rounded
"x = 2; a = 5; b = 3" A 5 inch tall bamboo shoot doubles in height every 3 days. If the equation y=ab^x, where x is the number of doubling periods, represents the height of the bamboo shoot.
Answer:
There is not much that can be done to figure out how to write 0.1875 as a fraction, except to literally use what the decimal portion of your number, the .1875 , means. Since there are 5 digits in 1875 , the very last digit is the "100000th" decimal place. So we can just say that .1875 is the same as 1875/100000.
Step-by-step explanation:
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Answer:
-12, -21
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the first number. Then the second is x-9. The other relation is ...
4x = 2(x-9) -6
2x = -24 . . . . . subtract 2x, simplify
x = -12
x-9 = -21
The first number is -12; the second number is -21.
