Answer:
The answer is the first one. Inside the absolute value symbols it is negative but absolute value answers are always positive. Instead of -30 the answer is 30.
I must assume that your graph is that of a straight line, and that the end points of the line are P and B, and (finally) that T is between P and B. If these assumptions are correct, then the length of the line segment PB connecting points P and B is 15 + 10, or 25.
To factor the given function, find a term that is divisible by both terms. For this problem, the factor would be 2, since 2x^2 and -18 are both divisible by 2.
2(x^2 - 9)
You could further factor out x^2 - 9 because it is factorable by (x - 3) and (x + 3). Thus, it would be
2(x -3)(x+3)
