Fred is scuba diving. he stops to look at a fish that is 14.3 meters below the surface. then he swims down 5.8 meters deeper to look at a reef. if he then swims up 3.2 meters, which is the best approximation of fred's position relative to the ocean surface?
12 meters 11 meters -17 meters -23 meters

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:

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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.

a c

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