This might look hard at first, but if you break it down into parts, it will be much easier. With that said, start with what you know. You see that the word problem says "the difference of y and 9", which means that you have to stubtract them. So, part of the equation is going to be y - 9. Now to look at the rest of the word problem. It says to divide by 3, so now you have to take what you have so far and divide that by 3. This means that you are going to have to divide the y - 9 by 3.
Your answer should be:
y - 9 / 3
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The marching l meaning of the X intercept is when the school receives $0
so hmmm let's get the area of the whole hexagon, and then get the area of the circle inside it, then <u>subtract the area of the circle from that of the hexagon's</u>, what's leftover is what we didn't subtract, namely the shaded part.
![\textit{area of a regular polygon}\\\\ A=\cfrac{1}{4}ns^2\cot\stackrel{\stackrel{degrees}{\downarrow }}{\left( \frac{180}{n} \right)}~ \begin{cases} n=\textit{number of sides}\\ s=\textit{length of a side}\\[-0.5em] \hrulefill\\ n=\stackrel{hexagon}{6}\\ s=\frac{9}{2} \end{cases}\implies A=\cfrac{1}{4}(6)\left( \cfrac{9}{2} \right)^2 \cot\left( \cfrac{180}{6} \right)](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5Ctextit%7Barea%20of%20a%20regular%20polygon%7D%5C%5C%5C%5C%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B1%7D%7B4%7Dns%5E2%5Ccot%5Cstackrel%7B%5Cstackrel%7Bdegrees%7D%7B%5Cdownarrow%20%7D%7D%7B%5Cleft%28%20%5Cfrac%7B180%7D%7Bn%7D%20%5Cright%29%7D~%20%5Cbegin%7Bcases%7D%20n%3D%5Ctextit%7Bnumber%20of%20sides%7D%5C%5C%20s%3D%5Ctextit%7Blength%20of%20a%20side%7D%5C%5C%5B-0.5em%5D%20%5Chrulefill%5C%5C%20n%3D%5Cstackrel%7Bhexagon%7D%7B6%7D%5C%5C%20s%3D%5Cfrac%7B9%7D%7B2%7D%20%5Cend%7Bcases%7D%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B1%7D%7B4%7D%286%29%5Cleft%28%20%5Ccfrac%7B9%7D%7B2%7D%20%5Cright%29%5E2%20%5Ccot%5Cleft%28%20%5Ccfrac%7B180%7D%7B6%7D%20%5Cright%29)
![A=\cfrac{1}{4}(6)\cfrac{9^2}{2^2} \cot(30^o)\implies A=\cfrac{243}{8}\cot(30^o)\implies A=\cfrac{243\sqrt{3}}{8} \\\\[-0.35em] ~\dotfill\\\\ \textit{area of circle}\\\\ A=\pi r^2~~ \begin{cases} r=radius\\[-0.5em] \hrulefill\\ r=\frac{4}{5} \end{cases}\implies A=\pi \left( \cfrac{4}{5} \right)^2\implies A=\cfrac{16\pi }{25} \\\\[-0.35em] ~\dotfill](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B1%7D%7B4%7D%286%29%5Ccfrac%7B9%5E2%7D%7B2%5E2%7D%20%5Ccot%2830%5Eo%29%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B243%7D%7B8%7D%5Ccot%2830%5Eo%29%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B243%5Csqrt%7B3%7D%7D%7B8%7D%20%5C%5C%5C%5C%5B-0.35em%5D%20~%5Cdotfill%5C%5C%5C%5C%20%5Ctextit%7Barea%20of%20circle%7D%5C%5C%5C%5C%20A%3D%5Cpi%20r%5E2~~%20%5Cbegin%7Bcases%7D%20r%3Dradius%5C%5C%5B-0.5em%5D%20%5Chrulefill%5C%5C%20r%3D%5Cfrac%7B4%7D%7B5%7D%20%5Cend%7Bcases%7D%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Cpi%20%5Cleft%28%20%5Ccfrac%7B4%7D%7B5%7D%20%5Cright%29%5E2%5Cimplies%20A%3D%5Ccfrac%7B16%5Cpi%20%7D%7B25%7D%20%5C%5C%5C%5C%5B-0.35em%5D%20~%5Cdotfill)
1.) 376.2
2.) 37620
3.)376200.
3.) 3762000
hope that helped
The answer of f(-2) is 42
