Jayson reads the first 48 pages of a 480-page book in 3 days. Marcus reads the first 50 pages of a 400-page book in 4 days. Nina reads the first 120 pages of a 600-page book in 5 days. If they continue to read at these rates, who will finish first?

Nina will finish first.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's calculate how many pages each person reads in one day:

Then we divide the number of pages of each book by reading speed of the respective person:

Thus Nina will take the shortest time finishing her book.

x= -3 and

step-by-step explanation:

to find the roots of a cubic, use division or factoring to find the factors then set equal to 0. as this is a difference of cubes, it factors into

where a is the cube root of .

here   this is 27 and the cube root of 27 is 3. so we write using the form:

.

set each factor to 0 and solve for x.

x-3=0

x=3

the quadratic expression does not factor and must be solved using the quadratic formula.

where a = 1, b=3, and c=9

this cubic has two complex roots.