From Which Area Would You Be Able to Isolate the Bacterium

question 21

Multiple Choice

From which area would you be able to isolate the bacterium Halobacterium?

• A)the Pacific ocean
• B)the Indian ocean
• C)Lake Michigan
• D)the Great Salt Lake
• E)the Mediterranean Sea

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Definitions:

Noncollinear Points

A set of three or more points that do not all lie on a single straight line.

Coefficient Matrix

A matrix consisting of the coefficients of the variables in a set of linear equations.

Linear Equations

Equations of the first degree, where variables are raised only to the power of one and graph as straight lines.

Augmented Matrix

An augmented matrix is a matrix used in linear algebra, consisting of the coefficient matrix of a system of linear equations and one or more columns added to the right, representing the constants from the equations' right-hand sides.