Answer:
a: about 800? nonfiction books in valley
b: valley and central has more fiction than nonfiction books
c: there's probably about 2600 books in hillside
Step-by-step explanation:
the solid is made up of 2 regular octagons, 8 sides, joined up by 8 rectangles, one on each side towards the other octagonal face.
from the figure, we can see that the apothem is 5 for the octagons, and since each side is 3 cm long, the perimeter of one octagon is 3*8 = 24.
the standing up sides are simply rectangles of 8x3.
if we can just get the area of all those ten figures, and sum them up, that'd be the area of the solid.
![\bf \textit{area of a regular polygon}\\\\ A=\cfrac{1}{2}ap~~ \begin{cases} a=apothem\\ p=perimeter\\[-0.5em] \hrulefill\\ a=5\\ p=24 \end{cases}\implies A=\cfrac{1}{2}(5)(24)\implies \stackrel{\textit{just for one octagon}}{A=60} \\\\[-0.35em] \rule{34em}{0.25pt}\\\\ \stackrel{\textit{two octagon's area}}{2(60)}~~+~~\stackrel{\textit{eight rectangle's area}}{8(3\cdot 8)}\implies 120+192\implies 312](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5Cbf%20%5Ctextit%7Barea%20of%20a%20regular%20polygon%7D%5C%5C%5C%5C%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7Dap~~%20%5Cbegin%7Bcases%7D%20a%3Dapothem%5C%5C%20p%3Dperimeter%5C%5C%5B-0.5em%5D%20%5Chrulefill%5C%5C%20a%3D5%5C%5C%20p%3D24%20%5Cend%7Bcases%7D%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B1%7D%7B2%7D%285%29%2824%29%5Cimplies%20%5Cstackrel%7B%5Ctextit%7Bjust%20for%20one%20octagon%7D%7D%7BA%3D60%7D%20%5C%5C%5C%5C%5B-0.35em%5D%20%5Crule%7B34em%7D%7B0.25pt%7D%5C%5C%5C%5C%20%5Cstackrel%7B%5Ctextit%7Btwo%20octagon%27s%20area%7D%7D%7B2%2860%29%7D~~%2B~~%5Cstackrel%7B%5Ctextit%7Beight%20rectangle%27s%20area%7D%7D%7B8%283%5Ccdot%208%29%7D%5Cimplies%20120%2B192%5Cimplies%20312)
21/2%=
21/0.02=
1,050
21 is 2% of 1,050
Check:
1,050*2%=
1,050*0.02=
21
The difference between them is 10
-4 - 6 = -10, however since it is only asking for the <em>difference, </em>your answer would be 10.