Answer the question.To complete the square of 2x2 + 4x = 8, is it ever a good idea to divide by the coefficient of x2?
What will be an ideal response?
Yes. In order to complete the square, the coefficient of the second-degree term must be 1.
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Solve the problem.A life insurance company uses the following rate table for annual premiums for women for term life insurance. Use a graphing utility to fit an exponential function to the data. Predict the annual premium for a woman aged 70 years.
A. y = 8.94e0.068x, $1044 B. y = -9306.4 + 2516.3 ln (x), $1723 C. y = 6.367e0.068x, $743 D. y = 0.0000398x4.06, $1233
Perform the indicated operation. Assume that all variables are nonnegative.8
+ 15
+ 4
A. 27
B. 27
C. -27
D. 27
Identify all values for which the expression is undefined.
A. 0 B. 2 C. None D. 0.5