Take the amount that he pays for his mortgage, so $2042, and divide that by his total pay, $5950. You’ll get .34016907. Then to make a decimal into a percentage, you multiply it by 100. This gives you 34%, meaning he spends less than the national average on housing.
Ok so in order to find the answer to this problem we are going to Multiply

and

.
We have the following function that is a
quadratic function:
So the graph of this function is shown in the figure below. This is a <em>parabola</em> as you can see. The roots of this functions, that is, the x-intercepts are:

As you can see in the figure. This function decreases from

and increases from

Finally, another thing we can see from the graph is that the vertex is the point:
Draw a graph the function and find the value of x that produces the maximum