Many insects migrate (travel) between their summer and winter homes. The desert locust migrates about 800 miles farther than the Monarch butterfly every spring, and the pink-spotted hawk moth migrates about 200 miles less than four times the distance of the Monarch butterfly every spring. Laid end to end, the distances traveled by a Monarch butterfly, a desert locust, and a pink-spotted hawk moth is about 12600 miles every spring. How far does each species travel?

Distance travelled by Monarch butterfly = 2000 miles

Distance travelled by desert locust  = 2800

Distance travelled by pink-spotted hawk moth= 7800 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the distance travelled by Monarch butterfly  be "X" miles

Distance travelled by desert locust is equal to X + 800 miles

Distance travelled by pink-spotted hawk moth is equal to 4X -200 miles

The total distance travelled by the three is equal to 12600 miles

Distance travelled by Monarch butterfly = 2000 miles

Distance travelled by desert locust  = 2000 + 800 = 2800

Distance travelled by pink-spotted hawk moth = 4 * 2000 -200 = 7800 miles

since your problem is x^4 = 81, what you have to undeo is the "to the fourth power" part.

the inverse (opposite operation) of "to the fourth power" is "to the fourth root".

  (x^4) ^ ¼   = 81 ^ ¼  

  81 = 3^4     so (3 ^ 4) ^ ¼   =   3 ^ 1   = 3

by hand: (3 ^ 4) ^ ¼   =   3 ^ (4 x ¼) = 3 ^ 1   = 3   (when you take a power to a power, multiply the exponents.)

or, do it by calculator. one way of finding the fourth root is to use ^ (1/4)

step-by-step explanation:

let's add {f(x)=x+1}f(x)=x+1 and {g(x)=2x}g(x)=2x together to make a new function.

f(x)+g(x) =(x+1)+(2x)=x+1+2x=3x+1

let's call this new function hh. so we have:

{h(x)}={f(x)}+{g(x)}{=3x+1}h(x)=f(x)+g(x)=3x+1

we can also evaluate combined functions for particular inputs. let's evaluate function hh above for x=2x=2. below are two ways of doing this.

method 1: substitute x=2x=2 into the combined function hh.

h(x)

h(2)

​    

=3x+1

=3(2)+1

=7

​ since h(x)=f(x)+g(x)h(x)=f(x)+g(x), we can also find h(2)h(2) by finding f(2) +g(2)f(2)+g(2).

first, let's find f(2)f(2):

f(x)

f(2)

​    

=x+1

=2+1

=3

​  

now, let's find g(2)g(2):

g(x)

g(2)

​    

=2x

=2⋅2

=4

​  

so f(2)+g(2)=3+4=\greend7f(2)+g(2)=3+4=7.

notice that substituting x =2x=2 directly into function hh and finding f(2) + g(2)f(2)+g(2) gave us the same answer!