You can factor (x^3 and 6x^2) and (-4x and -24).
So x^2(x+6) - 4(x+6)
(x^2-4)(x+6)
(x-2)(x+2)(x+6)
Step-by-step explanation:
there must be something wrong with your text.
what we can see is
3.8 × 105
and
1.9 × 1022
the true answer for these values has nothing to do with the 4 answer options.
maybe you meant
1.9 × 10.5 ?
because that answer would be 20.
but first working with the presented numbers :
3.8 × 105 = 399
1.9 × 1022 = 1941.8
so, the second number is actually much bigger than the first number.
but if it is
1.9 × 10.5 = 19.95
that works.
and we can either use the calculator to calculate
399 / 19.95 = 20
or we can simply look at the factor changes of the multiplication terms.
3.8 = 1.9 × 2
105 = 10.5 × 10
so, the multiplication product of the two larger numbers is then 2×10=20 times larger than the product of the 2 smaller numbers.
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Notice that the series: 1 - 3 + 9 - 27 +... clearly has powers of the factor 3 in its terms and it is also an alternate series (the terms alternate from positive to negative). The terms are positive for 
(even terms) , while the odd terms 
are negative. (so most likely there should be a factor (-1) in the common ratio.
We can then represent it with the following summation expression:
given that each of its first four terms are:
