Rewrite x2 − 2x − 3 = 0 in the form (x − a)2 = b, where a and b are integers, to determine the a and b values.
a = 4 and b = 3
a = 3 and b = 2
a = 2 and b = 1
a = 1 and b = 4

Find the slope of the line below . enter your answer as a fraction or decimal. use a slash mark ( / ) as the fraction bar if necessary

The total cost of anja’s trip to the dentist was $628.35. she paid a flat fee of $89.95 which included the checkup and cleaning and then had 4 cavities filled, each of which cost the same amount. which shows the correct equation and value of x, the cost of each cavity filling?

Afactory makes propeller drive shafts for ships. a quality assurance engineer at the factory needs to estimate the true mean length of the shafts. she randomly selects four drive shafts made at the factory, measures their lengths, and finds their sample mean to be 1000 mm. the lengths are known to follow a normal distribution whose standard deviation is 2 mm. calculate a 95% confidence interval for the true mean length of the shafts. input your answers for the margin of error, lower bound, and upper bound.