To effectively determine the correct answer, it would be helpful to write this into an algebraic expression. We let x as the number. We do as follows:
<span>Four times the square of a certain number increased by 6 times the number equals 108.
4x^2 + 6x = 108
The numbers can be either of the following since the equation generated was a quadratic equation which has two roots.
x = 4.5
x = -6 </span>
Given the recursive formula, each terms is five time the previous one.
This means that:
is 5 times 
, which means 
- in turn, is 5 times
, so we have 
. This means that 
- Finally,
So, substituting this back gives
In general, since you have 
, each time you compute a new term you multiply by a factor of 5, so if 
, you have
<span>Quartiles are generally more reliable for judging outliers than mean and standard deviations for 2 reasons. The mean is simply the average of all of the numbers, meaning that an outlier can easily be obscured by the masses. Standard deviation is a better method, however only going over by one standard deviation in either direction would also mask an outlier. A strong outlier however will pull a quartile farther in that direction than would normally be expected.</span>
Answer: 73
Step-by-step explanation:
Multiply using the FOIL method, then combine the real and imaginary parts of the expression.
73
