The distance between planets in two stellar systems is 1.6x10^6 miles. if a spaceship is able to travel at 8,400 miles per hour, will it be able to make the journey in under a year? justify your answer with mathematical reasoning.

Yes it will be able to make the journey in under a year.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many hours it will take and divide by 8400

So it will take the space ship 190.476 hours to make the trip.

Next, ask our self, how many hours are in a year?

To find out multiply 365 * 24 = 8760 hr

The 365 = number of day in a year. The 24 = number of hours in a day.

Knowing how many hours there are in a year and how long the trip will take tells us that the journey can be made under a year since there are 8760 hours in a year and we know we can make it there in 190.476 hr traveling at 8400 mph

step-by-step explanation:

equation

you are asked to write the equation

  expression = 0

using the given expression. when you do that, you have

  2x^2-2x-12 = 0

factoring

you can see that each of the coefficients is even, so a factor of 2 can be removed immediately.

  2(x^2 -x -6) = 0

if you multiply the binomials (x+a)(x+b), you get

  (x +a)(x +b) = x^2 +(a+b)x +ab

this tells you the coefficient of x is the sum of two factors of the constant term. here, that means -1 is the sum of two factors of -6. we want to know those factors so we can factor the trinomial.

  -6 = -1×6 = -2×3 = -3×2 = -6×1

the factor pair that sums to -1 is {-3, 2}, so our factorization is

  2(x -3)(x +2) = 0

solutions

the solutions to this equation are the values of x that make the product zero. a product is zero only when only of the factors of the product is zero. here, that means

  x - 3 = 0

  x = 3 . . . add 3 to both sides of the equation

or

  x +2 = 0

  x = -2 . . . add -2 to both sides of the equation

the solutions to the equation are x=3 or x=-2. both of these values of x satisfy the equation—they make it be true.

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