Answer:
The third one, 104,000,027,571
Step-by-step explanation:
The first and second ones are not the answers because the problem does not say one hundred forty billion.
The last one is not the answer because the problem doesn't say two hundred seventy thousand.
Thus leaving the third one, which fits the description of the number.
Factor x^3 -2x^2-9x+18
= x^2(x - 2) - 9(x - 2)
= (x^2 - 9)(x -2)
= (x + 3 )(x - 3)(x - 2)
So (x+3) is a factor
the answer is going to be a
m = 1/3, c = 2
Explained in the paper
