While on vacation, you map several locations using a coordinate plane in which each unit represents 1 mile. A cove is at (3,-7), an island is at (-5,4), and you are currently at (3,4). Are you closer to the cove or the island? Question 2
Justify your answer.
The cove is
miles away and the island is
miles away.

option a.

step-by-step explanation:

if you look closely at the graph, we can notice that the function is not defined at two different points.

if you look at functions b and c, you will notice that both functions are not defined at just one point. the function b is not defined at x= -5/2 and function c is not defined at x=-5. both options are discarded, given that our function should not be defined at two fiferent points.

now, if you look closely at the graph you will notice that the function sketched is not defined at x=5 and x=-2.

the mistake in the pattern is that :

b. the decimal point was moved one too many place values each time

the correct pattern could be made by :

b. moving the decimal point to the right the same numbers of place values as the exponents