<span>Ok. You would set up the problem like this: 32/x=64/100 and then cross multiply; 3200=64x; divide both sides by 64; x=50. Mary has 50 customers.</span>

solve for "k", to find the "constant of variation",
then plug it back in the y = kx, to get the equation
now
what's is y when x = -1?
well, just plug that in the equation with the found "k" value,
to get "y" :)
For determining the correct degree of a polynomial, you need to look at each term and find the degree by adding the exponents of each variable in it. The largest degree is the degree of the polynomial.
7x^6 has largest degree of the given polynomial, so your answer is D.6