GUYS, PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION! Please it's due today, everybody else got their questions answered! Listen to me! Jayden used a Groupon at the local pizza shop. Instead of paying $15, for the pizza, he paid $12.
Haley and Arianna agree that the percent of decrease is 20% but their explanations differ. Haley says to find the 20%, you have to determine what percent of 15 is 12. Arianna thinks you have to determine what percent of 15 is 3. Who is correct?

Arianna is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

She is correct because they need to find how much is the discounted price, which is 3. So to see what percentage it is, they need to see how much 3 is worth in comparison to 15. If we spilt 15 into 5 parts to make every part worth 20%, the answer would be 3. Thus Arianna is correct.

the correct option is:

b. a value of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to zero.

the root or roots of a polynomial are the values of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to 0. we can find the roots of a polynomial making the expression equal to 0 and then, isolating the variable (it it has just one variable).

for example, given the following polynomial:

the root or zero of the polynomial, can be found by making the expression equal to 0, and then, isolating the variable, so, finding the root we have:

therefore, we have that the root of the polynomial is equal to 2.

we must remember that the number of roots that a polynomial can have, will depend on the degree of the polynomial, a first degree polynomial have will have one single root, a second degree polynomial (quadratic expression) may have two roots and so.

hence the correct option is:

b. a value of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to zero.

have a nice day!