A boat traveled -3.4 mph for 0.75 hours. How far did it go?
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Let's find the perimeter of the window.
The bottom side is
. The left and right sides make 
.
The perimeter of a circle is
, so the perimeter of a semicircle must be 
, The radius is 
, so that gives 
for the curve. All of that is equal to 12.
We only want to use one variable to create the area formula, so let's solve for
.
Now that we have a value for in terms of , we can find the area in terms of .
The area of the rectangle is going to be
, which then becomes
The area of the semicircle is going to be
.
Since
, 
.
Now let's add the areas of the rectangle and semicircle.
If you wanted to factor out
like you did, this would become
Now what we want to do is find what is when 
is at its highest point, Once we have the value for we can also find the value for , of course.
Let's put our equation in the general form of a quadratic.
Now we can use the vertex formula
.
(
and 
refer to 
.)
Now let's plug that in for.
Since our final answers are in decimal form and not exact form, we can make our lives a little easier here and just use
.
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Let's take our answers for and and round to 2 decimal places.
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The bottom side is
The perimeter of a circle is
We only want to use one variable to create the area formula, so let's solve for
Now that we have a value for
The area of the rectangle is going to be
The area of the semicircle is going to be
Since
Now let's add the areas of the rectangle and semicircle.
If you wanted to factor out
Now what we want to do is find what
Let's put our equation in the general form of a quadratic.
Now we can use the vertex formula
(
Now let's plug that in for
Since our final answers are in decimal form and not exact form, we can make our lives a little easier here and just use
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Let's take our answers for