Yet another study by the University of Michigan concluded that it takes 411 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. A 1996 study by undergraduate students at Swarthmore College concluded that it takes a median of 144 licks (range 70–222) to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The two at the top technically means how many times the number in the bracket times ITSELF by, so its technically -3 x -3 which is +9 , cause a negative x negative = positive
Given R(3, 5), a dilation by a factor of 3 will multiply each coordinate to give ...
(9, 15)
Then the translation up by 3 will give you the image coordinates ...
(x, y) ⇒ (x, y+3)
(9, 15) ⇒ (9, 15 +3) = (9, 18)
The coordinates of R' are (9, 18), matching choice C.
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<em>Comment on multiple choice answers</em>
As it often does, here it works to "guess" the answer that has the coordinates that are most-repeated. An x-coordinate of 9 is part of 3 answer choices; a y-coordinate of 18 is the only repeated value in the answer choices. If you were to guess, an appropriate guess would be (9, 18). That happens to be correct in this case.
You have to distribute the parentheses first. Since there is a negative sign in front of the parentheses, it counts as a negative 1. After you distribute you should get: -5+6x=20x+12, but that is not your final answer. After you add like terms: 17x=-17. Divide 17 on both sides: x=-1. X=-1 is your final answer.