Photographing stars requires you to keep your exposure open for a long time. Taking pictures of star trails would take about 30 minutes to three hours. If you multiply that for the 6 stars stated above in the problem then you would be needing that much time if the stars were close and approximately 3 to 18 hours capture their star trails if they were far apart from each other.
So 4x^2+-2x+-6 then multiply by 5 would be the Area of the entire rectangle using the formula A=bh
You'll get 4x^2 − 2x − 6
a) We have to calculate the height of the pad.
We know that the volume will be 4704 cubic feet.
We also know that the base of the pad is a square of side length 56 feet.
As the volume is the area of the base times the height, we can find the height by dividing the volume by the base area:

The height is 1.5 feet.
b) Now, we have a circular pad of which we know the height (1.5 feet) and the volume (4705 ft³). The area of the base will have to be the same as the are of the square: 3136 ft².
The area of this circular pad can be expressed as πD²/4, so we can calculate the diameter D as:

The diameter is approximately 63.21 feet.
Answer:
a) The pad will be 1.5 feet thick
b) The diameter will be 63.21 feet.