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Question 474776: Simplify:
(3bc^-2)6-2 / (3b^-3c)^-1
Please show me step by step to get the answer. thanks

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Question 474815: I need a brush-up on completing the square. I am working with equations for ellipses. I just need help getting this problem into the right form for an ellipse by completing the square.
Here is an example:
x^2-2x+4y^2+8y+1=0
I know that eventually this ends up looking like (x^2-2x+1)+4(y^2+2y+1)=-1+1+4(1). I do not understand how we get here. I know that we are supposes to multiply both(?) sides by the square of half of the x coefficients, but I'm still confused. Anyway, an explanation for a dummy like me would be super awesome. Thanks!

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Question 474759: Simplify:
(b^5)^-8
Please show me step by step to get the answer. thanks

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Question 474872: what is the real numbers
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Question 474925: find three consecutive integers such that the square of the sum of the smaller two is equal to twice the largest.
(three consecutive integers are x, x+2, and x+4)
(the square of the smaller two are x^2 and (x+2)^2)

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Question 474933: I have to figure the dimensions of a fence in a rectangular area, using a 1000 sq ft of my back yard for a dog to run and play in using a Quadratic Equation. Did I calculate this the width correct? Thank you

L = 2W +5
L = length, W = width, P = perimeter, A = area
〖2w〗^2+5w-1000 = 0
A=2, B=5, C=1000
W = (-b±√(b^2-4ac))/2a
W = (-5±√(5^2-4(2)-1000))/(2(2))
W=(-5±√(5^2-4(2)-1000))/(2(2))
W = (-5±√(25-992))/4
W = (-5±√967)/4
W = (-5±√(-5+241.75))/4 = (236.75)/4 = 59.19 OR (-5-241.75)/4 = (-236.75)/4 = -59.19
W = 59.19 yards of fence

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Question 475020: Finding a quadratic equation of 25 and 36 are the following:
(x-25)(x+25)
(x-36)(x+36)
x-25
x-36

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Question 475020: Finding a quadratic equation of 25 and 36 are the following:
(x-25)(x+25)
(x-36)(x+36)
x-25
x-36

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Question 475083: I am a little confused on this problem and not sure where to start. Help would be greatly apprieciated.
The polynomial 0.0014x^3-0.07x^2+1.5x+11 models natural gas consumption in trillions of cubic feet, where x=0 corresponds to 1960, x=1 to 1961, and so on. In which year between 1979 and 1990 was natural gas consumption about 21.7 trillion cubic feet?

Thanks Abby

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Question 475231: what is 28x/4-9/4?

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Question 475235: I really need the answer to this funtion and how i came to my answer....
f(x)=X(2) +6
Find (-5), and (4)

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Question 475236: I really need the answer to this funtion and how i came to my answer....
f(x)= x+10
find f(-4), and f(x+8)

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Question 475236: I really need the answer to this funtion and how i came to my answer....
f(x)= x+10
find f(-4), and f(x+8)

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Question 475236: I really need the answer to this funtion and how i came to my answer....
f(x)= x+10
find f(-4), and f(x+8)

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Question 475232: Find the vertex and the line of symmetry of the quadratic function.
F(x)=-2x^2+2x+1
The x coordinate of the vertex is ____. (Type a simplified fraction.)
The y coordinate of the vertex is ____. (Type a simplified fraction.)
The equation line of symmetry is ____. (Type a simplified fraction.)

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Question 475179: Please help me solve this problem The teacher ask: How can we apply the zero property rule to this equation? Is it possible? ax2 + bx + c = 7 Thank you.
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Question 475389: Problem: Solve using the quadratic formula: 5x(squared)-2x+9=0
x= 2 times the square root of 2(squared)-4(5)(9) over 5(2).
x= 2 times the square root of 4-180 over 10.
x= 2 times +or- the square root of -176 over 10.
x= +or- the square root of -176 over 5.
That is as far as I've gotten in the problem. I know that the answer is supposed to be 1/5 +- 2(square root of 11)/5i. I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to get there from the last step of the problem I listed.
Thank you.

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Question 475401: What point is the intersection of the graphs of x2 + y2 = 34 and x2 -4y = 13?

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Question 475402: What point is the intersection of the graphs of x2 - y2 = 5 and 2x2 + y2 = 22?

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Question 475399: What point is the intersection of the graphs of x^2 + y^2 = 25 and y = x + 7?

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Question 475399: What point is the intersection of the graphs of x^2 + y^2 = 25 and y = x + 7?

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Question 475404: What point is the intersection of the graphs of y = 3x, x^2 + 4y^2 = 37, and y^2 - x^2 = 8 ?

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Question 475403: What point is the intersection of the graphs of x = -y, x^2 + y = 2, and -y^2 + 3x = 2?

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Question 475449: Solve for x.
x^2+14x+4=0

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Question 475457: x² + 0x - 16 = 0 is using zero squared in two places, but has two solutions. x² = -16 has no real solutions, but does not explicitly involve 0².

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Question 475456: 3x² - 9x + 7 = 0 be? How many solutions would that mean?

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Question 475458: ax^2+bx+c=0.

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Question 475472: If your equation is -0.2x + x² + 0.2 = 0, does this parabola open up or down? Which term's coefficient determines that?

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Question 475495: find the solution set by factoring and using the zero product rule or using the quadratic formula. 11x^2-12x=-1



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Question 475503: Simplify
(-5b^-3)(-8b^-5)
Please show me step by step to get the answer. Thanks

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Question 475466: Can you please help me solve this word problem involving quadratic equations, I am lost and can't figure out where to start.
The function D(x) models the cumulative number of deaths from a disease x years after 1984, estimate the year when there were 100,000 deaths.
D(x) =2285x^2 + 5583x + 5540.
There were approximatley 100,000 in the year __________________
(round to the nearest year)
Your help will be appreciated!
Thanks Abby

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Question 475518: find the
vertex
line of symmetry
maximum or minimum value of f(x)
graph the function
f(x)=1/5(x+4)^2+3
^means raising to that power and 1/5 is a fraction

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Question 475576: Can someone help me use quadratic formula to solve: Solve and graph x2 + x – 4 = 0. (x^2+x-4 =0)
If possible can you also graph the answer using word program? and send me an attachment?

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Question 475619: Find the Logarithm:
log2(logb(SQRE ROTb))
The 2 and b is the undersub
Please show me step by step to get the answer. Thanks

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Question 475625: Simplify: Assume that b and c are positive.
(8b^2/3 / 2b^4/5)^3/2
Please show me step by step to get the answer. Thanks

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Question 475708: quadratic equations; completing the sqaure
y^2+2y=2

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Question 475728: If you have -5x² + 12x - 10 = 0, what is the discriminant? How many solutions are there?

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Question 475756: What is the discriminant and how do you find it if you are given a quadratic equation? For instance, if you have -x² + 12 + 20 = 0, what would the discriminant be? How many solutions would this equation have?

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Question 475756: What is the discriminant and how do you find it if you are given a quadratic equation? For instance, if you have -x² + 12 + 20 = 0, what would the discriminant be? How many solutions would this equation have?

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Question 475787: Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour, and your city is the first stop on the tour. You need to supply information about projected ticket sales to the box office manager. The box office manager uses this information to anticipate staffing needs until the tickets sell out. You provide the manager with a quadratic equation that models the expected number of ticket sales for each day x. ( x=1 is the day tickets go on sale).
tickets=-0.26x squared+13x=35
1. Does the graph of this equation open up or down? How did you determine this?

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Question 475786: Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour, and your city is the first stop on the tour. You need to supply information about projected ticket sales to the box office manager. The box office manager uses this information to anticipate staffing needs until the tickets sell out. You provide the manager with a quadratic equation that models the expected number of ticket sales for each day x. ( x=1 is the day tickets go on sale).

tickets=-0.26x squared +13x+35
1. Does the graph of this equation open up or down? How did you determine this?

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Question 475750: Tickets will sale but once it reaches that peak point the sales will start to decrease because anytime you have a coefficients with negatives such as in this equation we already know that it is going to descend at some point which again will start once it reaches a certain point.

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Question 475624: Simplify:
(2bc^-7 / 5b^-1c^-2)^3
Please show me step by step to get the answer. Thanks

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Question 475774: solve
v^2-6v-7=0
^means raising to that power

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Question 475882: Simplify: Assume that b and c are positive.
b^2/5(b^8/5 + b^3/5)
Please show me step by step to get the answer. Thanks

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