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PSAT 1.37 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following forms of the function f(x) would best reveal the number of employees that should be hired to maxi...
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PSAT 1.32 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following is equivalent to this quantity?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by ducks more and more of them these days Or
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stopping to make sure the bread crumbs thrown to them
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are gluten free You know that which of the following
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is equivalent to the quantity x minus seven times quantity
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three x plus six times the quantity x squared minus
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four x minus five and hear the bench lands Well
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looks like solve this one We're gonna have tio consume
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mass quantities Cone heads know the pointy headed close with
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Yeah like we're old Well let's just take a look
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at the first two parts and princes and multiply those
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together For starters we can worry about the third one
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in a bit We're gonna multiply through x minus seven
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and three Acts plus 6 so we get three x
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squared plus six x minus twenty one x minus forty
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two Combine our ex terms and that's improvised three x
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squared minus fifteen x minus forty two All right now
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we'll introduce that last part back into our lives Like
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you never left this one's a bit more complex but
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it follows the same general principle we need to take
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The first term in the first polynomial multiply it by
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the first term in the second polynomial then do the
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same for the second third terms Then we go back
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to the first polynomial and lather intra pete with the
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second term there And finally with third once we're done
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we should have a string of terms about a half
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mile long but at least we'll be getting somewhere alright
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Well three x squared times x squared is three acts
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to the fore Three x squared times negative for axes
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negative twelve x cube and three x squared times Negative
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five is negative fifteen x square All right back to
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the first polynomial middle term now banking fifty Next time's
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expert is negative fifty next cube negative fifty next times
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negative for exes positive sixty x squared and negative fifteen
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x times negative five is positive Seventy five acts are
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home stretch first pollen on the old third term hanging
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a forty two times x squared is negative Forty two
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x squared Thank you forty two times negative four axes
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sixty eight x and negative forty two times five his
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positive to ten and we're done florida now to combine
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Like terms wherever possible we need to get our ducks
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in a row as it is there flapping all over
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have only got one accident fourth term so we can
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leave him along Negative twelve x cubed minus fifteen x
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cube is negative twenty seven x q taking fifteen x
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squared plus sixty x squared minus forty two x squared
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is three x squared Seventy five Acts plus 168 axes
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two hundred forty three acts And then finally we can
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tack on the two hundred ten At the end there
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are all together Now We have to react to the
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fourth one twenty seven execute plus three x squared plus
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two hundred forty three x plus two ten it's option
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b There's got to be careful with all those positive
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and negative signs but as long as you keep straight
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problems like this one as bad as they first appear
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Although tried telling these guys they can barely stand right 00:02:55.671 --> [endTime] frank
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