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    Inequalities in Functions

    Please show me how to reach the answer. 1. 2 + 3x/4 - x <(or equal to) 2x Answer given 1/2 < x or x > 4 2. x - 1/x - 3 > x - 4/x - 2 Answer given 2 < x < 5/2 or x > 3

    Simplifying Expressions

    Simplify and write the expression with positive exponents. All letters represent positive numbers. u ^ 5/6 u ^ - 1/2

    Difference Quotients and Maximum Value

    The following wage function represents the relationship between age and wages for a typical employee of a large firm: Wage= 20 + 25 * age - 0.25 * age^2 a) using the difference quotient, find the change in the wage from where age=30 to where age=40. b) show the formula for the change in the wage when age=1 c) at wha

    Solve the following algebraically

    For noninteger answers, I have to write my answers as a fraction rather than a decimal. To show my work, I need to include o the algebra used to compute the solution to any equations. o the formula with substituted values. o the final calculated answer with units. Please see attachment. 1)

    Graphing and Fitting Data to Different Kinds of Functions

    As the financial manager of ABC computers, you are ready to make some decisions. You are trying to see where revenues are going?is the company ready to expand, and if so, when? There is a lot of data that you have, but columns of numbers are not as easy to understand as a graph. You plot revenue as a function of time. You do

    Solving Equations and Evaluating Word Problems

    1.) how do you evaluate this expression M^2-6m-8 2.) How do you evaluate this 2x6+28/4-7 3.) -4/7w=8 4.) How do you solve this for x? 1/5x-5/2= -8/3 5.) How do you use the distributive property to remove these parentheses? 6(4+y) 6.) How do you graph this on a number line? x<1 or x>2 7.) A washer and dry

    Algebra Word Problems

    Solve the following problems: 1. A corporation allows each of its traveling employees an daily meal allowance and a nightly hotel allowance. One employee travels 4 days and 4 nights and is allotted $480. Another employee travels for 3 days and 2 nights and is allotted $270. What is the daily meal allowance and the nightly

    Simplifying Expressions and Solving Equations and Inequalities

    Simplify the following expressions: 16. 4[x - 2(x - 3)] 17. 5[2x - (x + 3)] - (4 - x) Solve the following equations & inequalities for x: 18. 7 - 5(x - 3) + 4 = 2 + 3(x + 4) 19. (x + 2) / 3 = (x - 1)/4 20. 2x - 6 > 4(-3 + x) 21. -4x + 6 -3x + 4 < 3(4 + x) - 6

    Radicals Simplified

    1. Simplify. A) B) C) D) 2. Simplify. Assume x represents a positive number. 3. Evaluate , if possible. A) 8 B) 4 C) 2 D) Not a real number 4. Simplify. 5. The base of a ladder is 8 feet away from the wall. The top of the ladder is 13 feet from the floor. F

    Undefined Rational Expressions and Simplifying Expressions

    1.Find the values (if any exist) that make the rational expression undefined. _____y(squared) + y + 1____ 16y(squared)-9 2. Write the given rational expression with the indicated denominator. __4x___ = _______?________ x+9 x(squared) +14x +45 3. Simplify: x (squared) + 0x -6

    Inequalities Word Problems

    A furniture maker has a shop that can employ 12 workers for 40 hrs. per week at its maximum capacity. The shop makes tables and chairs. It takes 16 hrs. of labor to make a table and 8 hrs. of labor to make a chair. Graph the region that shows the possibilities for the number of tables and chairs that could be made in one week.

    Calling Plan: Monthly Cost

    The monthly cost in dollars of a long-distance phone plan is a linear function of the total calling time in minutes. The monthly cost for 42 minutes of call is $16.42 and the monthly cost for 88 minutes is $21.48. What is the monthly cost for 64 minutes?

    HELP!!!

    Measure the height of your computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or sixteenth of an inch. Measure the width of your monitor as well. Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the diagonal of your monitor. In your post, include the height, the width, and the calculations needed to determine the length

    Compound Inequalities and Absolute Values

    Solve the compound inequality. State the solution set using interval notation and graph it, A. B. C. Solve each absolute value equation and graph the solution set A. B.

    Radical expressions: simplify, perimeters, area

    Evaluate if possible: [See attachment for the formatted questions]. Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400ft high. Formula [attached] is the distance fallen. Use property 1 to simplify each of the following radical expressions. Assume that all variables represent positive re

    Solve the following algebraically.

    Please see attachment for full problem description. 1) Solve the following algebraically. You must show all your work. Learn how to type math roots and fractions by clicking on link in the assignment list. Alternately, you may type as cuberoot(x) and show raising to the nth power as ^n, like x 3 is typed x^3. a)Answer