An animal shelter spends $3.50 per day to care for each bird and $6.50 per day to care for each cat. brooklyn noticed that the shelter spent $146.50 caring for birds and cats on friday. brooklyn found a record showing that there were a total of 29 birds and cats on friday. how many birds were at the shelter on friday?

Solution: Let be the number of birds and be the number  of cats.

Therefore, there were 14 birds at the shelter on Friday

b

step-by-step explanation:

the correct option is:

b. a value of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to zero.

the root or roots of a polynomial are the values of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to 0. we can find the roots of a polynomial making the expression equal to 0 and then, isolating the variable (it it has just one variable).

for example, given the following polynomial:

the root or zero of the polynomial, can be found by making the expression equal to 0, and then, isolating the variable, so, finding the root we have:

therefore, we have that the root of the polynomial is equal to 2.

we must remember that the number of roots that a polynomial can have, will depend on the degree of the polynomial, a first degree polynomial have will have one single root, a second degree polynomial (quadratic expression) may have two roots and so.

hence the correct option is:

b. a value of the variable that makes the polynomial equal to zero.

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