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PSAT 1.24 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following is one solution to the system of equations shown above?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke du jour
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rock to you by intersections Ifyou're a pedestrian be prepared
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Drivers are going to yell at you that's Why they
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call it a cross walk All right F backs equals
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x squared plus three x plus four g of x
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equals negative for x minus six Which of the following
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is one solution to the system of equations shone above
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and here the answers all right Got points on a
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graph and that nun thing Oh system of equations How
- 00:29
do we love the let us count the ways one
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uh we're done That was fast Okay so there may
- 00:35
not be a tunnel love loss when it comes to
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these little fellers but they're really not so bad As
- 00:39
long as you know howto came them We've got two
- 00:42
equations and the question wants to know which point if
- 00:45
any would be a solution While the solution was system
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of equations is always the point or points where the
- 00:49
equations intersect So we can set these to equal one
- 00:53
another and then just solve for x So here we
- 00:55
go that's how they equal each other And now to
- 00:57
simplify We can add for x to both sides and
- 01:00
then do the same thing with six to get x
- 01:01
squared plus seven exposed ten is zero now it's a
- 01:05
matter of factoring Well since we have seven x in
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the middle of our polynomial we'll need to use five
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times too to get ten there on the end and
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in the end it's gonna factor into the quantity x
- 01:15
plus five times Quantity x plus two equals zero Now
- 01:19
we know the equations will intersect at x equals negative
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five and x equals negative to so much negativity Somebody
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turned on nickelodeon Okay from here we can just take
- 01:29
each of those values and plug him back into either
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equation to find why And remember even though it says
- 01:34
g a vexing the original equation that's really The same
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thing is why it just likes to play dress up
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Now the negative for x minus six equation looks much
- 01:42
less likely to bite So we'll go with that one
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Negative four times Negative five His positive twenty So we
- 01:48
get twenty minus six equals Why so Yeah why equals
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fourteen Which means that one point that will solve this
- 01:53
System of equations is negative five fourteen which is answer
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a bull's eye If we were to try the same
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thing with native to we'd wind up with the point
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negative to two which looks something like option b but
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ain't quite there So is our final answer Uh finding
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the solution has helped us gain inner peace and will
- 02:11
ease our road race Excuse us for a second We 00:02:14.08 --> [endTime] see another pedestrian coming
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