It will be a negative.
for an example: -20 for x would mqke 2x + 1 into -39 and 8x + 5 into -155. that's 116 apart, so maybe -2(8) + 5 = -11
-2(2) + 1 = -3
but that's only 8 apart, so it'd be higher.
-4(2) + 1 = -7
-4(8) + 5 = -27
BOOM
Tadaaaa,
You probably thought positive, but sometimes it's negative, you know what I mean?
Answer:
A political strategist wants to test the claim that the percentage of residents who favor construction is more than 30%, so then that represent our claim and needs to be on the alternative hypothesis.
Based on this the correct system of hypothesis are:
Null hypothesis: 
Alternative hypothesis 
Step-by-step explanation:
We have the following info given from the problem:
the random sample of voters selected from the town
represent the proportion of residents favored construction
represent the value desired to test.
A political strategist wants to test the claim that the percentage of residents who favor construction is more than 30%, so then that represent our claim and needs to be on the alternative hypothesis.
Based on this the correct system of hypothesis are:
Null hypothesis: 
Alternative hypothesis 
And in order to test this hypothesis we can use a one sample z test for a population proportion and the statistic would be given by:
(1)
And with the data given we have:
This should be your answer hopefully
She would have $23.52 because 12 times 3 is 36 and 36-12.48=23.52