Walking Through a Remote Tropical Forest,you Discover a Bright,round Object

question 9

Multiple Choice

Walking through a remote tropical forest,you discover a bright,round object about the size of a golf ball.It smells sweet and,when you cut it open,you see a collection of seeds inside white,juicy flesh.From this,you conclude that you have discovered a fruit.The seeds from this fruit are most likely dispersed by _______.

• A) wind
• B) water
• C) hummingbirds
• D) ballistics: seeds are shot out of the fruit by water pressure
• E) an animal who eats the fruit and deposits the seeds in feces

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Definitions:

Scientific Notation

A way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, using powers of ten.

Quadratic Polynomial

A polynomial of degree two, typically written in the form ax^2 + bx + c where a, b, and c are constants.

Cubic Polynomial

A polynomial of degree three, characterized by an equation of the form ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d, where a, b, c, and d are constants and a ≠ 0.

Quintic Polynomial

A polynomial of degree five, represented as \(ax^5 + bx^4 + cx^3 + dx^2 + ex + f\) where \(a\), \(b\), \(c\), \(d\), \(e\), and \(f\) are constants and \(a \neq 0\).