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Todd travels frequently for his business. For tax reasons, he wants to use up all of the remaining money in his business travel fund this
year. He uses the function f (x) = x2 24x + 144 to determine how many trips he must take to spend all of his
remaining business travel funds. In this function, Xrepresents the number of trips and f (x)is the amount of money left in his fund
after the trips.

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Answer:

One real zero solution, as [tex]\Delta[/tex] is 0, and he must take 12 trips.

Step-by-step explanation:

His amount of funds is given by:

[tex]f(x) = x^2 + 24x + 144[/tex]

Solving a quadratic equation:

Given a second order polynomial expressed by the following equation:

[tex]ax^{2} + bx + c, a\neq0[/tex].

This polynomial has roots [tex]x_{1}, x_{2}[/tex] such that [tex]ax^{2} + bx + c = a(x - x_{1})*(x - x_{2})[/tex], given by the following formulas:

[tex]x_{1} = \frac{-b + \sqrt{\Delta}}{2*a}[/tex]

[tex]x_{2} = \frac{-b - \sqrt{\Delta}}{2*a}[/tex]

[tex]\Delta = b^{2} - 4ac[/tex]

How many trips he must take to spend all of his remaining business travel funds?

x trips, and x is found when f(x) = 0. So

[tex]x^2 - 24x + 144 = 0[/tex]

Quadratic equation with [tex]a = 1, b = -24, c = 144[/tex]

So

[tex]\Delta = (-24)^{2} - 4*1*144 = 0[/tex]

[tex]x_{1} = \frac{24 + \sqrt{0}}{2} = 12[/tex]

[tex]x_{2} = \frac{24 - \sqrt{0}}{2} = 12[/tex]

One real zero solution, as [tex]\Delta[/tex] is 0, and he must take 12 trips.

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