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The numberof parts per million of nitric oxide emissions y from a certain car engine is approximated by th
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Question 13411: Could you please help me with this problem? It looks like Greek to me.
The numberof parts per million of nitric oxide emissions y from a certain car engine is approximated by the model y=-5.05x^3+3857x-38411.25 (13 Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! WOW!! What an intimidating problem!
Let's try to simplify things a little bit. First of all, you are given an incredibly intimidating formula: , where y is 2400 and x is the unknown that you need to find: the air-fuel ratio.
Substitute the value of y:
Subtract 2400 from each side:
Now you have a really ugly equation to solve, and it looks like a real-life problem, probably one that is not going to come out even--it probably won't factor! So use a graphing calculator to solve it.
The problem is to graph , and find the x intercept(s). That will be the solution. Also, in the problem, it says that we are looking for values of x that are between 13 and 18. The graph should look like this between x = 10 and x= 20 and y between -1000 and 1000:
There appear to be two points where the graph crosses the x axis within this interval. With further calculation it seems that the first point is exact at x= 15. The second number looks like 17, but it turns out to be approximately 16.89.
