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Question 312325: Factor: 2t^2 + 5t - 12
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Question 312324: Factor: 5x^2 + 6x +1
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Question 312297: I need help on this equation, what is a?: (3a-2)(4a+1)=5
Thanks!
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Question 312417: Factor trinomial
c^2-10c+21
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Question 312414: Solve
v^2+4v-32=0
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Question 312415: Factor by grouping
8x^3-8x^2-x+1
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Question 312416: Factor
c^3-36c^2-9c+324
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Question 312412: Solve
c^2+30c=0
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Question 312425: I am not sure what this question is asking and how to go about solving it?
Could you please give me a hint as to where I need to go? I used substitution and arrived at the answer but it is asking me to use synthetic division and i am getting a wrong answer. Thank you.
P(x)=3x^5-2x^4+3x^2-2x-5
Find the P(-1) using synthetic division. Be sure to show that you used synthetic division. (This is how the question reads.)Again, Thank you.
Tina
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Question 312435: simplify by removing factors of 1
y^2-8y+45/y^2+4y-45
what is the simplified form?
Thankyou so much for all your help..
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Question 312404: xsquared-8x+16
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Question 312409: How do you Divide this equation s^2-2s over s^2+3s-10 divided by s-5 over s+5 ?
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Question 312473: simplify the following radical expression:
3 sqrt () -216x^2/x^2
a) sqrt() -6x
b)-6
c)-6 sqrt()x
d) 6 sqrt()-x
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Question 312429: simplify by removing factors of 1
6y-24/6y
what is the simplified form?. thankyou again in advance.
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Question 312483: if y varies directly as x and y = 4 when x= -2, find y when x = 30.
A) -4/15
B) 60
C) -60
D) 4/15
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Question 312433: 2-z/z-8 - 5z-7/8-z
subtract and simplify if possible.
Thankyou in advance for your help.
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Question 312510: simplify by removing factors of 1
y^2-8y+15/y^2+4y-45
what is the simplified form?

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Question 312508: Simplify the following radical expression: 8^1/3
a)2
b)8
c)0
d) 4
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Question 312512: 9/y-7
I need to find all numbers for which the rational expression is undefined '
Thank you sooo much in advance. I am trying to read and understand my text but it is not helping me.
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Question 312527: Hello, I am having difficulty solving some math problems.
Find the lowest common multiply of y^2 + 18y + 81 and y^2 + 5y-36 ?

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Question 312467: simplify: sqrt()27 - sqrt()8 + 2sqrt()2
a)3 sqrt() 3
b) 0
c)3 sqrt () 3 - 4 sqrt()2
d)3 sqrt () 3 - 2 sqrt()2
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Question 312523: A television commercial about cholesterol claimed that by using their pills at least one person lowered his cholesterol by 18%, a drop of 30 points! What was the original cholesterol level?
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Question 312521: Suppose you are entered in a driving contest and you are to maintain an average speed of 60 mph for 2 miles. Your engine develops a miss and you can only maintain 30 mph for the first mile. The miss disappears after the first mile and the engine returns to normal. How fast must you drive the second mile to meet the overall average speed requirement?
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Question 312609: Factor
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Question 312663: a rectangular table is 4 feet longer as long as it is wide. If the area is 144 ft to the 2nd power find the length and width.
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Question 312663: a rectangular table is 4 feet longer as long as it is wide. If the area is 144 ft to the 2nd power find the length and width.
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Question 312667: x^2 + 4x-5=0 The solution is ( , ) or no solution?
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Question 312666: the product of the page numbers of 2 facing pages of a book is 110. Find the page numbers.
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Question 312657: factor the expression completely
x^8 - 1
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Question 312665: There are N teams in a league & the number of games played is given by the polynomial n to the 2nd power minus n = N. A womens soft ball league had 9 teams. what is the total number of games played?
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Question 312712: y^2-49/y divided by y-7/y+3
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Question 312717: 20cd/c^2-d^2 - c-d/c+d
subtract and simplify if possible.
Thanks in advance
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Question 312750: simplify x^2+7x+12/x^2+6x+8
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Question 312750: simplify x^2+7x+12/x^2+6x+8
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Question 312780: how do I solve 3/x+2=5/15x+5?
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Question 312741: Please help me solve this adding and subtracting polynomial: (5a + 9b) - (4b + 2a)
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Question 312739: Please help me solve this adding and subtracting polynomial: ( 5x + 3z) + 9z
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Question 312738: Please help me solve this adding and subtracting polynomial: (3p^2 - 2p + 3) - (p^2 - 7p + 7)
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Question 312825: Solve x^3 - x^2 - 7x +15 =0 over the set of complex numbers
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Question 312840: Hi,I am having a hard time with this problem,/x/...
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Question 312845: I need some help with this problem,
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Question 312844: Hi,I am having trouble with this problem,/x/

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Question 312843: I need some help with this problem,/x/
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Question 312923: 343s^3+ 64t^3= I connot figure this one out.Their isnt a GCF.I dont KNow were to start.
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Question 312939: if two numbers differ by 14, then what polynomial represents their product? Let x represent the smaller number
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