Answer:
Definition: Exponents, or powers, are a way of indicating that a quantity is to be multiplied by itself some number of times.
Example: 
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You don't have the graph icon here, so we'll have to graph this parabola without it.
Your parabola is y = -x^2 + 3., which resembles y = a(x-h)^2 + k. We can tell immediately that this parabola opens down and that the vertex is (0,3).
Plot (0,3). Besides being the vertex, this point is also the max. of the function.
Now calculate four more points. Choose four arbitrary x-values, such as {-2, 1, 4, 5} and find the y value for each one. Plot the resulting four points. Draw a smooth curve thru them, remembering (again) that the vertex is at (0,3) and that the parabola opens down.
In this problem you use cosine because you know the hypotenuse and you want to know the adjacent side of the triangle. So in your calculator you would input cos(52). Then you would multiply that answer with the hypotenuse side. So your equation would be this: cos(52) x 13
