Completing the squares tells us exactly what square root we will need to calculate our answer.
Using the formula below you can find these answers:

Does this make sense?
Answer:5p^3-2p^2-7p+1
Step-by-step explanation:
-3p^3+5p+(-2p^2)+(-4)-12p+5-(-8p^3)
open brackets
-3p^3+5p-2p^2-4-12p+5+8p^3
Collect like terms
-3p^3+8p^3-2p^2+5p-12p-4+5
5p^3-2p^2-7p+1
149 will be rounded to 150 so 150×5= 750
You can take it apart. There are a top and bottom (both the same) right triangle. So you can find the area of that by multiplying 8*6 and divide by two. Then multiply by two because there are 2 triangles.
You are left with three rectangular sides: One 10x10, one 10x6, and one 10x8.
So your whole equation looks like this: A = 2[(8*6)/2]+(10*10)+(10*6)+(10*8)