The Cassini spacecraft is on a mission in orbit around Saturn until September 2017. Three of Saturn's moons, Tethys, Calypso, and Telesto, have nearly circular
orbits of radius 295,000 kilometers. The diagram shows the positions of the moons and the spacecraft on one of Cassini's missions.
83,000 km
Tethys
Calypso
Cassini
Saturn
203,000 km
Telesto
16
Find the distance DB from Cassini to Tethys when AD is tangent to the circular orbit. Round to the nearest kilometer.
DB =
km

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question 1 answer: p/q can be terminating when q = 5^m * 2^n

question 2 answer: -1 and -1

question 3 answer: -4

question 4 answer: 5/12

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1. when "a" is a root of a polynomial, (x -a) is a factor of it. for the three roots given, the factors of the desired polynomial are (x +2)(x -1/2)(x -3).

in order to make the leading coefficient be negative, we need to multiply this product by a negative number. any negative number will do, but we choose a small (magnitude) value that will eliminate the fraction: -2.

then

f(x) = -2(x +2)(x -1/2)(x -3) = -(x +2)(2x -1)(x -3)

= -(2x² +3x -2)(x -3)

= -(2x³ -3x² -11x +6)

f(x) = -2x³ +3x² +11x -6

2. a graph created by the desmos on-line graphing calculator is shown, and the zeros are highlighted.

3. as indicated in part 1, the multiplier of this equation can be anything and the zeros will remain the same. you want a negative leading coefficient, so the "anything" is restricted to any of the infinite number of numbers that will make that be the case.