SOLUTION: List the zeros of y = x(x-5).
If you have more than one solution, separate them with commas.
x=______
if you can, will you plz show some work because i have a few question
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If you have more than one solution, separate them with commas.
x=______
if you can, will you plz show some work because i have a few question
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Question 930758: List the zeros of y = x(x-5).
If you have more than one solution, separate them with commas.
x=______
if you can, will you plz show some work because i have a few questions like this and i want to do them on my own. Found 3 solutions by rcdodds, josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:Answer by rcdodds(6) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The zero of a function is the x-value that will make the y=0. Therefore, to find them we set y equal to 0 and solve using algebra.
We could expand this to a quadratic and use the quadratic formula, and although there's a shortcut I will show you the long way because the shortcut doesn't always work.
We see this way that our zeros are x=0 , x=5 .
Once we are experienced with these types of problems we can see that for x TIMES x-5 to be equal to zero, one of the two parts has to be equal to 0 and that happens at x=0 , x=5 .
Either way we get the same results, and the shortcut can take some getting used to. Hope that helps to clarify!
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
List the zeros of y = x(x-5).
If you have more than one solution, separate them with commas.
x=______
if you can, will you plz show some work because i have a few questions like this and i want to do them on my own.
y = x(x - 5)
0 = x(x - 5) -------- Setting the factors equal to 0
x = 0 OR x - 5 = 0 ------- Setting each factor equal to 0
x = 0 OR x = 5
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