1/4/2023-Warm Up

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6 questions

https://www.desmos.com/testing/virginia/graphing

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At the annual state tournament nine teams make the playoffs.  How many different ways can first, second, and third place be awarded?

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There are 12 movies that Christine wants to see over winter break.  She only has time to see 4 of the movies. How many different groups of 4 movies are possible, if the order in which they are seen is not important?

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graph it in Desmos to help you...but this has to do with the way the graph looks, given the degree and if the a value is positive or negative.

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You can graph each of these in Desmos to see if they'll give you a vertical asymptote at 4...but a few of them should be quite obvious that it won't work. Which functions actually had asymptotes? Think about it.

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So yeah, you should be able to come up with the factor here...

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yeah, this one stinks...quad formula is your option..but desmos can give you some insight....