A store offers four different brands of a product. It decides to eliminate the brand that is most likely to be returned. The table shows the number of items
of each brand that were returned over the past year and the total sold.
Returns
Total sold
Brand A
22
457
Brand B
10
328
Brand C
21
511
Brand D
19
241
Which brand should the store eliminate?

Brand D has the highest return rate so they should eliminate that one.

Step-by-step explanation:

brand A - .0481

brand B - .0307

Brand C - .0410

Brand D - .0788

hello from mrbilldoesmath!

answer:   x (x+6)^2, choice b

discussion:

factor x out of the equation:

x^3 + 12x^2 + 36x = x (x^2 + 12x + 36).

note that 6+6 = 12 and 6*6 = 36 so the above factors into:

x (x+6)^2

which is choice b

you,

mrb