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Question 345680: Need help with systems of equations using matrices.
Don't know how to set up this problem.
A change machine contains nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are 75 coins in the machine and the value of the coins is $7.25. If there are 5 times as many nickels as dimes, find the number of coins of each type in the machine.
Need by 9pm tonight (if possible). Thank you for your time.
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Question 346098: I need to find the intersecting points of two equations: y=.15x and y=.2(x-20)and graph them. I have included my problem and what is expected. I'm lost.
Ok this is what I got :
You would set the two equations equal to each other and solve for x
.15x=.2(x-20) using the Elimination Method
Reorder the terms:
0.15x = 0.2(-20 + x)
0.15x = (-20 * 0.2 + x * 0.2)
0.15x = (-4 + 0.2x)
Solving
0.15x = -4 + 0.2x
Solving for variable 'x'.
Move all terms containing x to the left, all other terms to the right.
Add '-0.2x' to each side of the equation.
0.15x + -0.2x = -4 + 0.2x + -0.2x
Combine like terms: 0.15x + -0.2x = -0.05x
-0.05x = -4 + 0.2x + -0.2x
Combine like terms: 0.2x + -0.2x = 0.0
-0.05x = -4 + 0.0
-0.05x = -4
Divide each side by '-0.05'.
x = 80
Simplifying
x = 80
Now that X = 80, I plugged it into the equation y=0.15x and got this:
y=0.15x
y=0.15(80)
y= 12
Now this is the question to my problem and I do not know how to get the answer. I have to graph this and show the intersection.
a teacher is looking for the best option in purchasing school supplies for a classroom. Where Company A is offering a discount for every dollar amount spent on school supplies and where Company B is offering a higher discount than Company A, but the discount for Company B is only offered for every dollar amount spent above $20.00. I will determine and explain which company will offer a better price based upon the dollar amount the teacher spends on school supplies.
Option 1- Company A will offer her a 15% discount on the total amount spent in the store.
Option 2- Company B will offer her a 20% discount on the remaining amount after the first $20 is spent.
Depict the situation graphically, using appropriate graphing software such as Excel or an online graphing utility.
Include the following in your graph:
• A depiction of each cost option on the same graph
• Clear labels of the cost to the hypothetical customer for both options on the graph
• The intersection of the cost options (if one exists)
I'm so lost. I do not know how to graph this. Please help if you can.
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Question 346098: I need to find the intersecting points of two equations: y=.15x and y=.2(x-20)and graph them. I have included my problem and what is expected. I'm lost.
Ok this is what I got :
You would set the two equations equal to each other and solve for x
.15x=.2(x-20) using the Elimination Method
Reorder the terms:
0.15x = 0.2(-20 + x)
0.15x = (-20 * 0.2 + x * 0.2)
0.15x = (-4 + 0.2x)
Solving
0.15x = -4 + 0.2x
Solving for variable 'x'.
Move all terms containing x to the left, all other terms to the right.
Add '-0.2x' to each side of the equation.
0.15x + -0.2x = -4 + 0.2x + -0.2x
Combine like terms: 0.15x + -0.2x = -0.05x
-0.05x = -4 + 0.2x + -0.2x
Combine like terms: 0.2x + -0.2x = 0.0
-0.05x = -4 + 0.0
-0.05x = -4
Divide each side by '-0.05'.
x = 80
Simplifying
x = 80
Now that X = 80, I plugged it into the equation y=0.15x and got this:
y=0.15x
y=0.15(80)
y= 12
Now this is the question to my problem and I do not know how to get the answer. I have to graph this and show the intersection.
a teacher is looking for the best option in purchasing school supplies for a classroom. Where Company A is offering a discount for every dollar amount spent on school supplies and where Company B is offering a higher discount than Company A, but the discount for Company B is only offered for every dollar amount spent above $20.00. I will determine and explain which company will offer a better price based upon the dollar amount the teacher spends on school supplies.
Option 1- Company A will offer her a 15% discount on the total amount spent in the store.
Option 2- Company B will offer her a 20% discount on the remaining amount after the first $20 is spent.
Depict the situation graphically, using appropriate graphing software such as Excel or an online graphing utility.
Include the following in your graph:
• A depiction of each cost option on the same graph
• Clear labels of the cost to the hypothetical customer for both options on the graph
• The intersection of the cost options (if one exists)
I'm so lost. I do not know how to graph this. Please help if you can.
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Question 346215: How do I find the inverse of [5 3]
[7 9]? (That's supposed to be a matrix, I didn't know how to make one on here)
So far I have gotten the determinant of 21 but I don't remember what to do from there.
Thanks
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Question 347692: can you please help me with this word problem? I am suppose to write equations for this word problem and they are suppose to fit in a matrix.
Word Problem: The senior class is selling greeting cards. Birthday Cards sell for $5.00 a box. Thank You cards sell for $7.00 a box. You sold 4 more boxes of birthday cards than thank you cards. your total sales was $152.00. How many Boxes of each kind did you sell?
Thank you
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Question 349041: I need help solving this equation from my algebra 2 class.
it is a 3x3 matrix set equal to x^2. The instructions I've been given say, "Solve the equation."
the problem is as follows:
0 0 -1
3 x 0
2 0 3
equal to x^2
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Question 349960: Please help me with this, same question is on the test tomorrow according to the prof. Thank you so much
Solve using Gauss-Jordan Elimination: As the school psychologist, you are consulting with the staff nutritionist about one of your student's low energy and propensity for minor illness. the nutritionist has suggested a daily routine of 350 units of vitamin C, 4200 units of Vitamin A, and 400 units of Vitamin D. She also recommends the following sources of these vitamins: Megadose Supra contains 50 units of C, 1000 units of A, and 100 units of D per capsule. Crazy Caps contains 100 units of C, 200 units of A, and 100 units of D. Formula I contains 50 units of C, 500 units of A and no Vitamin D per capsule. How many of each capsule should the student take to get the recommended dosages?
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Question 350511: (a)If A is idempotent and has an inverse A^(-1) show that A=I
Explain what this result says about the kinds of matrices that could possibly be both invertible and idempotent.
(b) If A is idempotent, does it have to be square? Why or why not?
(c) Let B=[1 0
0 0] Is B idempotent?
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Question 350586: suppose A is a 3x3 matrix with elements
a11 =1 a12=0 a13=2
a21=-1 a22=3 a23=4
a31=0 a32=1 a33=0
how would you use A^-1 to find the solutions of the linear system
x+2z = 1 and -x+3y+4z =2 and y=3
could you please show working.
i have used numbers with subscripts to depict the matrix entries because i dont know how to type the brackets
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Question 353075: Hello
I am having problems in solving the eigenvectors for the matrix:
3 0
8 -1
I have already calculated the eigenvalues which are -1 and 3 but I can not get the eigenvector, because of the zero in the top right hand corner.
Any help is much appreciated
Iman
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