Given the polynomial 2x3 + 18x2 − 18x − 162, what is the value of the constant 'k' in the factored form? 2x3 + 18x2 − 18x − 162 = 2(x + k)(x − k)(x + 9) k=

What is the expression in factored form? 225x^2 - 144 a. 9(5x+4)^2 b. 9(5x-4)^2 c. 9(4x+5)(4x-5) d. 9(5x+4)(5x-4)

What are the solutions to the following equation? |m| = 8.5 the value of m is equal to 8.5 and because each distance from zero is 8.5.

Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297