The parade stopped 136 times you simply divide the number of floats by 6 to find the answer.
We are told that f(x) = x + 2. We want to find
.
Squaring f(x) on one side means we square x + 2 on the other.
So,
f(x) = x + 2
(f(x))² = (x + 2)²
= (x + 2)(x + 2)
We can use FOIL to square x + 2. The first terms multiply to x², the outside terms to 2x, the inside terms to 2x and the last terms to 4.
= x² + 2x + 2x + 4
= x² + 4x + 4
So [f(x)]² = x² + 4x + 4
Y=2 7x2= 14
X= 7 4x7=28
28-14=14
The first one and the second one are the correct sums