SOLUTION: Please help 1.) The graph of -4x+2y=6 crosses the x-axis when x = ? 2.) Find the center and the radius from the equation of the circle in standard form (x-5)^2+(y+3)^2 3.)

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Question 64227: Please help
1.) The graph of -4x+2y=6 crosses the x-axis when x = ?
2.) Find the center and the radius from the equation of the circle in standard form (x-5)^2+(y+3)^2
3.) The formula for the area of a triangle is A=1/2bh. If a=20 and h=b-6, then what does b= ?
4. The solution set of the equation 4/x+2-2/x-4=-6/x^2-2x-8 is ?
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1.) The graph of -4x+2y=6 crosses the x-axis when x = ?
Let y=0 and solve for x to find this:
-4x+2(0)=6
-4x+0=6
-4x/-4=6/-4
highlight%28x=-3%2F2%29
2.) Find the center and the radius from the equation of the circle in standard form (x-5)^2+(y+3)^2
Standard form of a circle is:%28x-h%29%5E2%2B%28y-k%29%5E2=r%5E2, where (h,k)=center, and sqrt%28r%5E2%29=radius.
You forgot to include the =r^2 part so I can't tell you what the radius is, but the center (h,k)=(5,-3)
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3.) The formula for the area of a triangle is A=1/2bh. If A=20 and h=b-6, then what does b= ?
20=(1/2)b(b-6)
2(20)=2(1/2)b(b-6)
40=b(b-6)
40=b^2-6b
40-40=b^2-6b-40
0=b^2-6b-40
0=(b-10)(b+4)
b-10=0 or b+4=0
b-10+10=0+10 or b+4-4=0-4
b=10 or b=-4
Since you can't have a negative dimension, we ignore -4 and say that highlight%28b=10%29.
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4. The solution set of the equation 4%2F%28x%2B2%29-2%2F%28x-4%29=-6%2F%28x%5E2-2x-8%29 is ?
4%2F%28x%2B2%29-2%2F%28x-4%29=-6%2F%28%28x-4%29%28x%2B2%29%29 The LCD is (x+2)(x-4), multiply evertyhing by the LCD to clear your fractions.


4%28x-4%29-2%28x%2B2%29=-6
4x-16-2x-4=-6
2x-20=-6
2x-20%2B20=-6%2B20
2x=14
2x%2F2=14%2F2
highlight%28x=7%29
Double check to make sure that the equation is defined at x=7 (it is), because you can get extraneous solutions with rational equations. If the solution had of been x=-2 or x=4, we would have had to reject it because it would have made one of the fractions undefined.
Happy Calculating!!!!