Provide an appropriate response.Under what conditions does xm represent a negative number? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Any number raised to an even power is 
Any 
number raised to an odd power is 
Any negative number raised to an odd power is negative. Thus, x must be a negative number, and m must be an odd number.
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Solve.The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangular plot is 7 to 4. Its diagonal measures 
Find the dimensions of the plot.
A. Length: 28 ft; width: 16 ft B. Length: 31.5 ft; width: 18 ft C. Length: 35 ft; width: 20 ft D. Length: 24.5 ft; width: 14 ft
An air freight company has three types of aircraft which carry three types of cargo. The payload, in tons, is summarized in the table below. 
On Sundays and holidays, , the company must move 14 tons of mail, 9 tons of medical supplies, and 11 tons of freight. This system of equations can be represented by the matrix: 
. Reduce this matrix to calculate how many aircraft of each type should be used.
What will be an ideal response?
Determine how many of the first 5 statements in the sequence obtainable from the given statement are true.2n < n2
A. 2 B. 5 C. 3 D. 4
Determine the x values that cause the function to be (a) zero, (b) undefined, (c) positive, and (d) negative.f(x) = 
A. (a) 
, (b) ?, (c) 
? (5, 7), (d) 
? (7, ?)
B. (a) {5}, (b) 
, (c) 
? (7, ?), (d) 
? (5, 7)
C. (a) {5, 7}, (b) 
, (c) 
? (7, ?), (d) 
? (5, 7)
D. (a) {7}, (b) 
, (c) 
? (5, 7), (d) 
? (7, ?)