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IMG0 The graph of the equation y=r(x3)(xr)y = r(x-3)(x-r) intersects the yy-axis at (0,48)(0,48). What are the two possible values of rr?Figure 1 A bicycle costs $B\$B before taxes. If the sales tax were 13%13\%, Annemiek would pay a total that is $24\$24 higher than if the sales tax were 5%5\%. What is the value of BB?Figure 2 The function ff has the following three properties: f(1)=3f(1) = 3. f(2n)=(f(n))2f(2n) = (f(n))^2 for all positive integers nn. f(2m+1)=3f(2m)f(2m+1) = 3f(2m) for all positive integers mm. Determine the value of f(2)+f(3)+f(4)f(2)+f(3)+f(4).

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Since ABD\triangle ABD is right-angled at BB and has ADB=45°\angle ADB = 45\degree, then BAD=45°\angle BAD = 45\degree. Similarly, CPD\triangle CPD is right-angled and isosceles with $\$\angle PCD =
45°45\degree.Further,. Further, \triangle APNand and \triangle CBN are also both right-angled and isosceles. Since

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Figure for this problemCB = 6and and NB = CB,then, then NB = 6.Since. Since AB = 12and and NB = 6,then, then AN = AB - NB = 6.[[IMAGE0]]Since. [[IMAGE0]] Since \triangle APN is right-angled and isosceles, then its sides are in the ratio

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Figure for this problem1:1:21:1:\sqrt{2}.Thus,. Thus, AP = PN = 12\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} AN =
62=32\frac{6}{\sqrt{2}} = 3\sqrt{2}.Alternatively,if. Alternatively, if AP = PN = x, then the Pythagorean Theorem gives

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Figure for this problemAN^2 = AP^2 +
PN^2andso and so 6^2 = 2x^2whichgives which gives AP^2 = x^2 = 18.Thus,theareaof. Thus, the area of \triangle APNis is 12AP\frac{1}{2} \cdot AP \cdot PN = 123232\frac{1}{2} \cdot 3\sqrt{2} \cdot 3\sqrt{2} = 9. The line with equation

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Figure for this problemy = -3x +
6has has yintercept-intercept 6,whichmeansthat, which means that OB = 6.Tofindthe. To find the xinterceptofthisline,weset-intercept of this line, we set y = 0 and obtain the equation

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Figure for this problem-3x + 6 = 0whichgives which gives 3x = 6or or x = 2.Thismeansthat. This means that OA = 2.Since. Since \triangle ABOisrightangledat is right-angled at O,itsareais, its area is 12OB\frac{1}{2} \cdot OB \cdot OA = 126\frac{1}{2} \cdot 6 \cdot 2 = 6$.

Since the area of ACD\triangle ACD is 12\frac{1}{2} of the area of ABO\triangle ABO, then the area of ACD\triangle ACD is 33. Next, we note that the line with equation $y
= mx + 1has has yintercept-intercept 1;thus,; thus, OD = 1. This means that the area of

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Figure for this problem\triangle
ADOis is 12OD\frac{1}{2} \cdot OD \cdot OA = 121\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 \cdot 2 = 1$.

We can determine the area of BCD\triangle BCD by subtracting the areas of ACD\triangle ACD and ADO\triangle ADO from that of ABO\triangle ABO, which tells us that the area of BCD\triangle BCD is 631=26 - 3 - 1 = 2. [[IMAGE1]] Now, we can consider BDBD, which has length 61=56 - 1 = 5, as the base of BCD\triangle BCD; the corresponding height of BCD\triangle BCD is the distance from CC to the yy-axis, which we call hh. Thus, $125\$\frac{1}{2} \cdot 5 \cdot h =
2andso and so h = 45$.\frac{4}{5}\$.

This means that CC has xx-coordinate 45\frac{4}{5}. Since CC is on the line with equation y=3x+6y = -3x + 6, we have y=345+6=185y = -3 \cdot \frac{4}{5} + 6 = \frac{18}{5}.

Therefore, the coordinates of CC are (45,185)(\frac{4}{5},\frac{18}{5}).

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