Algebra II : Mathematical Relationships and Basic Graphs

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Example Questions

Example Question #11 : Other Factorials

What is ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

A factorial means you are multiplying the number, with one less than previous number and you keep multiplying until you reach . Since we are dealing with variables, let's analyze each the numerator and the denominator.  is definitely greater than  in this situation because factorials are always positive numbers. If we took the difference between  and  we would get . This means that if we were to expand both the numerator and denominator, we cancel everything out except the extra term in the denominator which is .

So final answer is .

Example Question #231 : Mathematical Relationships And Basic Graphs

Simplify.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

A factorial means you are multiplying the number, with one less than previous number and you keep multiplying until you reach . Since we are dealing with variables, let's analyze each the numerator and the denominator.  is definitely greater than  in this situation because factorials are always positive numbers. If we took the difference between  and  we would get . This means that if we were to expand both the numerator and denominator, we cancel everything out except the  extra terms in the numerator which are . So final answer is .

If you need convincing, let . So we have .

You can cancel out the   from top and bottom to get . We need to express them into expressions.

Since  was , to get , you need to add  to  or  

To get , you add  to  or  

 To get  you subtract  from  or .

You still get the same answer of 

Example Question #81 : Factorials

Simplify:  

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Write out the terms of each factorial in expanded form.  The only exception is the zero factorial, which is equal to one.

Simplify the terms.  The values in the numerator and denominator cannot cancel out!

The correct answer is:  

Example Question #84 : Factorials

What is the value of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Step 1: We must define factorial. Factorial is defined as , where 

Step 2: Evaluate 




Example Question #85 : Factorials

Compute:  

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Simplify the factorials in the numerator and denominator.

Simplify the terms on the top and bottom.

The answer is:  

Example Question #231 : Mathematical Relationships And Basic Graphs

Multiply:  

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Simplify all the terms in the parentheses first.

This indicates that:

The answer is:  

Example Question #92 : Factorials

Evaluate:

Possible Answers:

None of the other choices gives the correct response.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

 is equal to the sum of the expressions formed by substituting 1, 2, 3 and 4, in turn, for  in the expression  , as follows:

 - or  factorial - is defined to be the product of the integers from 1 to  . Therefore, each term can be calculated by multiplying the integers from 1 to , then taking the reciprocal of the result.

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Add the terms:

Example Question #2891 : Algebra Ii

Try without a calculator:

True or false: 

Possible Answers:

True

False

Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

 - or  factorial - is defined to be the product of the integers from 1 to . Therefore, 

Since ,

and 

 is a false statement.

Example Question #21 : Other Factorials

Try without a calculator.

Give the value of  that makes this three-part inequality true.

Possible Answers:

The inequality has no solution.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Given a nonnegative integer  - or  factorial - is defined to be the product of the integers from 1 to . After some exploration, multiplying 1 by 2, the result by 3, that result by 4, and so forth, we find that

Multiplying by 8, we find that

Multiplying by 9, we find that

Therefore,

Since only integers may have factorial values, it follows that the only value of  that makes the inequality true is .

Example Question #95 : Factorials

Try without a calculator:

 is equal to which expression?

Possible Answers:

None of these

Correct answer:

Explanation:

 - or  factorial - is defined to be the product of the integers from 1 to . Therefore, 

and 

,

the correct response.

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