Answer:
- sum: 3x² -4x -4
- product: (x -2)(3x +2)
Step-by-step explanation:
The areas of four regions are given. We can simply add them to find the sum. To express them as a product, we need to look at common factors.
<h3>Sum</h3>
The total of the given area expressions is ...
3x² +2x -6x -4 = 3x² -4x -4 . . . . sum
<h3>Product</h3>
Extending the table to show common factors of each row and column, we have ...

Since each cell of the table is the product of the corresponding common factors, we can write the area as the product ...
(x -2)(3x +2) . . . . product
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
The above question is in the form of an exponential decay. The equation for an exponential decay is given by:

where y and x are variables, b < 1, a is the initial value of y (that is the value of y when x = 0).
Let y represent the number of trees left and x represent the number of months. Given that there is currently 2.5 billion trees, therefore a = 2.5 * 10⁹, b = 0.5% = 0.005. The equations becomes:

The zeros are x= 0,-5,-8. the zeros are the x values where the graph intersects the x-axis. to find the zeros, you have to replace y with zero then solve for x.
Answer:
$36,566
Step-by-step explanation:
"The calculator provided" will tell you the monthly payment is $338.57, so the 108 payments made over the period of 9 years will total ...
108 × $338.57 = $36,565.56
Rounded to the nearest dollar, the amount is $36,566.