What is the expression? Tell me and I will help you.
Answer:
P(t) = 282.2(1.009)^t
Step-by-step explanation:
Look at the attached image.
Hope you can read my handwriting. the image cut off the right side, b = 1.009213324... but question asks to round to nearest thousandth so it's 1.009
For the second part just use the equation to find P when t = -1 and see if P is less than (underpredicts) the number from the question or greater than (overpredicts) the number. I haven't calculated it but I think it will be smaller and thus underpredicts just from looking at the numbers when t = -1
Answer:

Since the measurement can't be negative the correct answer for this case would be 
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's assume that the figure attached illustrate the situation.
For this case the we know that the original area given by:

And we know that the initial area is a half of the entire area in red
, so then:

And we know that the area for a rectangular pieces is the length multiplied by the width so we have this:

We multiply both terms using algebra and the distributive property and we got:

And we can rewrite the expression like this:

And we can solve this using the quadratic formula given by:

Where
if we replace we got:

And the two possible solutions are then:

Since the measurement can't be negative the correct answer for this case would be 
The cube with 1 face with area 36 ft^2 has an edge of 6 ft.
The other cube has edges 2 * 6 = 12 ft long and its volume is 12^3
= 1728 ft^3 (answer).