The magnitudes of the moon and sirius are -12.5 and -1.44, respectively. approximately how many times is the moon brighter than sirius?

Solution:

we are given that

The magnitudes of the moon and Sirius are -12.5 and -1.44 respectively.

we have been asked to find approximately how many times is the moon brighter than Sirius?

The word magnitude is used by the scientist to describe the brightness of moon/star/object etc.

So we can find the brightness by dividing the given values. so we get

Hence we can say

The moon is 8.68 times brighter than Sirius.

x= -3 and

step-by-step explanation:

to find the roots of a cubic, use division or factoring to find the factors then set equal to 0. as this is a difference of cubes, it factors into

where a is the cube root of .

here   this is 27 and the cube root of 27 is 3. so we write using the form:

.

set each factor to 0 and solve for x.

x-3=0

x=3

the quadratic expression does not factor and must be solved using the quadratic formula.

where a = 1, b=3, and c=9

this cubic has two complex roots.

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for