In the equation

, a is the initial amount and b is the growth factor. So our initial amount is 30 and our growth factor is 8.3. Your correct choice for this is A.
ANSWER

EXPLANATION
The given product is:

We expand using the distributive property to obtain:

Extract the perfect squares to get:

Expand further to get;

This simplifies to,

<span>2x squared - 5
= 2(x)^2 - 5
= 2(4)^2 - 5
= 2(16) - 5
= 32 - 5
= 27</span>
Hello!
I believe that the answer would be 40²
I hope this helps!