Acompany estimates its total profit (profit = total revenue minus total cost) as p(x) = 2x^5 − 3x^4 − 5x^2 − 2, where p is in thousands of dollars and x is the number of years elapsed since the company was founded. how many times can the total profit become exactly zero? hint: use descartes's rule of signs.

Aline on the wall and a line on the floor are skew. always, sometimes, or never?

The function below show how much jayna and hannah charge for babysitting. which statement best compares the two plants?

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.