What happens to the value of the expression p50 as p decreases from a large positive number to a small positive number?Choose 1 answer:(A) It increases.(B) It decreases.(C) It stays the same.
Q. What happens to the value of the expression p50 as p decreases from a large positive number to a small positive number?Choose 1 answer:(A) It increases.(B) It decreases.(C) It stays the same.
Understanding Inverse Proportion: Let's consider the expression (p50). We want to understand how this expression changes as the value of p changes. Since p is in the denominator, we know that the value of the expression is inversely proportional to the value of p. This means that as p increases, the value of the expression decreases, and as p decreases, the value of the expression increases.
Illustrating with Examples: To illustrate this, let's take a large positive number for p, say p=100. The expression (50/p) would then be (50/100)=0.5. Now, if we decrease p to a smaller positive number, say p=10, the expression becomes (50/10)=5. We can see that as p decreased from 100 to 10, the value of the expression increased from p=1000 to p=1001.
Generalizing Behavior: Since we are considering the behavior as p decreases from a large positive number to a small positive number, we can generalize that the value of the expression p50 increases as p decreases, as long as p remains positive.
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