Mel descends 50-35=15 feet in 5-2=3 seconds. Thus, her descent rate is 15/3=5 ft/sec.
Victor descends 60-50=10 feet in 4-1=3 seconds. Hence, his descent rate is 10/3=3⅓ ft/sec. Mel is faster, traveling at 5 ft/sec.
The correct option is the first one - refer to the image for the solution:
(a) The multiplicative inverse of 1234 (mod 4321) is x so that 1234*x ≡ 1 (mod 4321). We can apply Euclid's algorithm:
4321 = 1234 * 3 + 619
1234 = 619 * 1 + 615
619 = 615 * 1 + 4
615 = 4 * 153 + 3
4 = 3 * 1 + 1
Now we will express 1 as a linear combination of 4321 and 1234:
1 = 4 - 3
1 = 4 - (615 - 4 * 153) = 4 * 154 - 615
1 = 619 * 154 - 155 * (1234 - 619) = 619 * 309 - 155 * 1234
1 = (4321 - 1234 * 3) * 309 - 155 * 1234 = 4321 * 309 - 1082 * 1234
This reduces to
1 ≡ -1082 * 1234 (mod 4321)
Thus, the inverse is
-1082 ≡ 3239 (mod 4321)
(b) Since both 24140 and 40902 are even, their GCD cannot equal 1, indicating no inverse exists.
The diagonal that crosses the interior of the cube is the longest segment. The hypotenuse corresponds to the longest side in a right triangle. In this case, the cube's diagonal serves as the hypotenuse of a right triangle, with the legs being the diagonal of one of its faces and one of its edges. The edges are the shortest sections and function as the legs of a right triangle where the face's diagonal acts as the hypotenuse.
