The first thing he has to do is take that "minus" sign through the parentheses containing the second polynomial. Some students find it helpful to put a " 1 " in front of the parentheses, to help them keep track of the minus sign. Here's what the subtraction looks like, when working horizontally.
Put it in the calculator and you should get the answer of 4.582575695
A)


b)
since QR=QP, that means that QO is an angle bisector, and thus the segments it makes at the bottom of RO and OP, are also equal, thus RO=OP
thus, since the point P is 0.5 units away from the 0, point R is also 0.5 units away from 0 as well, however, is on the negative side, thus R (-0.5, 0)
c)
what's the equation of a line that passes through the points (-0.5, 0) and (0,2)?

I think the answer is 39
-21+60=49