-5 1/8 would round to -5
-9 3/4 would round to -10
1 37/41 would round to 2
-5(2)=-10
Hope this helped :)
Here you go -12.4 - 5.75 x is your Answer
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Answer: 8</h3>
Reason:
Replace p with 2 and evaluate.

Think of a cube that is 2 units along each side. It's volume is 2*2*2 = 8 cubic units. Repeated multiplication can be shortened to using exponents.
Another example: 
The first graph is what i would think