1) Flounder
2) The second option(its blurry)
3) 4
4) 1
5) I think 52(its blurry)
6) 12
7) 2 1/3
8) 51
9) 5/6
10) 38
11) 40
12) The error is the negative sign because when finding absolute value the answer can never be zero since absolute value is the how far the thing is from zero, unless the negative sign is outside the absolute value lines.
13) >
14) =
15) <
16) >
17) a: your boat (18) friends boat (23).
b: your friends boat is farther behind the winning boat.
18) -2, 0, 1, 3, 5
19) -5, -3, 1, 3, 5
20) Always True
21) Never True
22) Sometimes
P.S You should give more points for this and you should get tutoring or you won't learn how to do this its pretty easy just a suggestion not calling you dumb or anything.
Answer:
x = 2
x = -3/2 or -1.5
Step-by-step explanation:
For this, I would use the "slip and slide" method. LOL I know the name is cheesy, but that's what my teacher called it!
First, you "slip" the coefficent of the leading term (2) to the constant, and multiply.
The equation becomes:
x² - x - 6(2) = 0
x² - x - 12 = 0
Then, you factor this out by looking at the second and third terms. You're looking for 2 factors of -12 that would add up to -1 ( the coefficent of the second term).
Automatically, think of 3 and 4, because the difference between them is 1.
The factors must be (x-4) and (x+3) because they multiple to -12, and add up to -1.
This step is extremely important! Lol I used to forget it a lot, but make sure you divide the constant in each factor by the original number you "slipped".
It would become (x-(4/2))(x+3/2) = (x-2)(x+3/2)
With (x+3/2), you don't want to leave it as a fraction or decimal. It's equivalent to (2x+3). However, the informal form is easier to identify the value of x.
