SOLUTION: A mountain has an elevation that is expressed as a quadratic trinomial (4x^2-44x+52) meters. If the elevation of the mountain is 2956 meters, what are the possible values of x that
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Question 1085978: A mountain has an elevation that is expressed as a quadratic trinomial (4x^2-44x+52) meters. If the elevation of the mountain is 2956 meters, what are the possible values of x that will make the expression be equal?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
meters
If the elevation of the mountain is meters, we have
....both sides divide by
....factor
solutions:
if =>
if =>
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