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Question 137154: Please help!
y=x^2-6x+4
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Question 137215: Solve using the quadratic formula:
x^2-3x=-6x-1
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Question 137219: Solve the problem by completing the square
x^2 + 10x = 7
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Question 137221: Solve the problem by using the quadratic formula
6w^2 + 9w - 1
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Question 137100: what is the value of x when
xcube + 3x = 47
The question says that it has a solution between 3 and 4. what does this mean.
what should i take the value of a?
i have got the answer 5.52 and -8.52. is it right
What would happen if the question was like below
4xcube + 3x=20
what should i take the value of a is it 4?? and what should i do with the cube? does it affects the formula
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Question 137172: solve by completing the square: 2x^2-x-5=0
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Question 137253: What is the solution to x^2-2x+5=0 when you use complex numbers. I always end up with 1-2i and 1+2i but when I put those into the equation to check it, it doesn't come out to be 0. Is that because it is a complex number and there truly is no solution? This question did not come from a textbook but from a worksheet from the tescher. The text we use is the Glencoe Algebra 2 text. It didn't help when I tried to follow the examples given.
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Question 137334: Solve the problem. The profit that the vendor makes per day by selling x pretzles is given by the function P(x) = -0.002x squared + 1.2x - 300. Find the number of pretzels that must be sold to maximize profit.
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Question 137231: the speed of the airplane in still air is 186mph. the plane travals 538 mi againt the wind and 1415 mi with the wind in a total time of 12 hr. what is the speed of the wind
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Question 137426: what if there is no c factor when using the quadradic formula to solve an equation?
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Question 137457: I would really appreciate it if I could get some help on this question, thanks.
The path of a falling object is given by the function s=-16t^2+vo+s0 where vo represents the initial velocity in ft/sec and so represents the initial height in feet. Also, s represents the height in feet of the object at any time,t,which is measured in seconds.
If a rock is thrown upward with the initial velocity of 40ft per second from the top of a 30ft building.
s= -16t^2+vot+so I figured out that much, then it asks after how many seconds will the graph reach maximum height?What is the maximum height? I just need help setting up the equation to solve for height.... The question comes from my online algebra class at aiu. HELP PLEASE. thanks, alaska
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Question 137437: Solve for x
2(x-4)-(x+2)=(x+2)(x-4)

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Question 137456: I would really appreciate it if I could get some help on this question, thanks.
The path of a falling object is given by the function s=-16t^2+vo+s0 where vo represents the initial velocity in ft/sec and so represents the initial height in feet. Also, s represents the height in feet of the object at any time,t,which is measured in seconds.
If a rock is thrown upward with the initial velocity of 40ft per second from the top of a 30ft building.
s= -16t^2+vot+so I figured out that much, then it asks after how many seconds will the graph reach maximum height? I just need help setting up the equation to solve for height....The question comes from my online algebra class at aiu. HELP PLEASE. thanks, alaska
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Question 137491: Solve the system of equations by graphing. Then classify the system as consistent or inconsistent; and the equations as dependent or independent.
3u+v=18
3u=v+30
Help what is up with th u and v I do not understand.
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Question 137492: Solve the system of equations by graphing. Then classify the system as consistent or inconsistent; and the equations as dependent or independent.
y= -x-12
8x-7y=9
Again can someone help me with this one. This class is getting so much harder than I ever expected.
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Question 137495: Solve by the substitution method.
7m + n= 12
m - 8n= 18
Help me please. This chapter is just aweful for me I understand hardly anything.
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Question 137502: Solve by the elimination method.
x+8y=29
-x+3y=4
I do not understand this 'elimination method', can someone please help me??
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Question 137500: Solve by the substitution method.
4x+7y = 35
-3x+y = 30
Can someone please help me with this.
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Question 137504: The perimeter of a rectangle is 108 inches. The length exceeds the width by 8 inches. Find the length and the width.
Again please help me.
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Question 137489: Solve the system of equations by graphing. Then classify the system as consistent or inconsistent; and the equations as dependent or independent.
x+y=5
x-y=-1
What is the solution of the system of equations.
Please help me with this.
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Question 137503: Solve by the elimination method.
0.3x - 0.2y = 4
0.5x + 0.5y = -45/17 (this is a fraction that is -)
I have no idea how to solve this, what do i do with that fraction? Help please.
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Question 137501: The perimeter of a rectangle is 144 m. The length is 9 m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
Do I just multiply each (144, and 9m) 2 and that is the answer?
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Question 137499: Solve by the substitution method.
4x+7y = 34
-3x+y = 12
Can someone please HELP me with this problem. I do not understand it at all!!
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Question 137499: Solve by the substitution method.
4x+7y = 34
-3x+y = 12
Can someone please HELP me with this problem. I do not understand it at all!!
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Question 137490: Solve the system of equations by graphing. Then classify the system as consistent or inconsistent; and the equations as dependent or independent.
3x-y=23
3x+4y=13
HELP
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Question 137552: Please Help -- 6(x^2 - 2) = 12
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Question 137593: Problem: Solve polynomial inequality and graph the solution set on a real number line.
(x+1)(x+2)(x+3)>=0
I have set each of the terms to equal 0.
x+1=0 x+2=0 x+3=0
x=-1 x=-2 x=-3
Then I placed these three numbers on a number line as boundary points.
I used the following test points:
-1.5 which was >=0 (true)
-2.5 which was not >=0 (false)
-4 which was not >=0 (false)
0 which was >=0 (true)
I am confused on how to plot this on the number line and write the solution set in set builder notation. I think that I would use [ at -1 and go right, but I am not clear on whether the next point would be set at -2 or -3.
I would have [-1, infinity) and ?
{xIx>=-1 and ?}
Can you help me finish solving this problem. Thank you.

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Question 137655: Solve by the elimination method.
9x-9y=36
7y-3x= -14
What is the solution of the system?
Can someone explain this to me? I do not understand this at all...not of it.
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Question 137656: Solve by the elimination method.
0.05x+0.25y=11
0.15x+0.05=12
What is the solution of the system?
Again can someone explain how I am supposed to do this? I do not seem to understand anything that anyone has said. I am getting soooooo aggrevated.
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Question 137738: please help me with this equation
(m+1)(m-1)=0
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Question 137741: Please help me solve this problem: f(x) = x^2-4x /2x^3 +2x^2-12x. The first section up to the 4x is on top of the fraction bar and everything else after it is below the fraction bar.
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Question 137766: x^2-10x-1=-10
Using quadratic formula
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Question 137765: x^2-3x=-6x-1

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Question 137739: please help me with this problem
(y-2)^2=5
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Question 137737: please help me solve this
(a-7)(2a+5)=0
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Question 137736: 1-4w^2=w^2+11
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Question 137704: Please solve and explain this quadratic equation. I still don't quite understand how to solve and graph it. thanks!
y=(x-3)^2-5
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Question 137834: How do you find a quadratic equation if you are only give the solution? Is it possible to have different quadratic equations with the same solution? Explain. give an example.
Thanks,
ts
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Question 137833: Describe what the graph of interval [-4,10] looks like.
Can someone please help me with this. I am supposed to explain this in 50 words. How do i write something in words that i barely can do with the numbers??? Please help.
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Question 137867: A lumber company can convert logs into plywood or lumber. The mill turns out twice as many units of plywood as lumber. It makes a profit of $25 on a unit lumber and $50 on a unit of plywood. How many of each unit must be produced in order to make a profit of $12750?
The lumber company must produce and sell ?? units of lumber and ?? units of plywood to make a profit of $12750.
I am so bad with word problems also, can someone help.
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Question 137933: The volume of a square pyramid is given by the formula V=1/3hx(to the 2nd power), where h is the height of the pyramid and x is the length of one side of the base. A pyramind with a height of 15 ft. has a voulme of 2880 ft. (to the 3rd power) What is the length of one side of the base?
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Question 137938: Please help me solve the quadratic equation. I Have to show whether concave up or concave down? Thanks!
y= -(x-2)^2
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Question 137880: The college paid $1718 for an order of 47 calculators. The store paid $10 for each scientific calculator. The others were all graphing calculators these calculators cost $58 each. How many of each type a calculator were sold?
Help again please, no clue how this is done.
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Question 137937: Please help me solve the quadratic equation. I Have to show whether concave up or concave down? Thanks!
y=(-X^2+4X+5)
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