THe notation  is a composite function, which means we put the inside function g(x) into the outside function f(x). Essentially, we look at the original expression for f(x) and replace each x with the value of g(x).

The original expression for f(x) is . We will take each x and substitute in the value of g(x), which is 2x-1.

We will now distribute the -2 to the 2x - 1.

We must FOIL the  term, because . 

Now we collect like terms. Combine the terms with just an x.

Combine constants.

The answer is .

Plug 16 in for .  

Add 9 to both sides.  

Take the square root of both sides. =

Final answer is  

This expression is the same as saying "take the answer of and plug it into ."

First, we need to find . We do this by plugging in for in .

Now we take this answer and plug it into .

We can find the value of by replacing with .

This is our final answer.

Total cost of the cab ride is going to equal the base fare ($4.50) plus an additional 10 cents per mile. This means the ride will always start off at $4.50. As the cab drives, the cost will increase by $0.10 each mile. This is represented as $0.10 times the number of miles. Therefore the total cost is:

The pre-question text provides us with all of the information required to complete this problem. 

We know that the total length of the walls is to be  ft.

We also know that we have a total of  walls and  walls.

With this, we can set up an equation and solve for .

Our equation will be with sum of all the walls set equal to the total length of the wall...

Remeber, we want  in terms of , which means our equation should look like

 something

  Subtract  on both sides

  Divide by  on both sides

   Simplify

     Answer!!!

The function is written in slope-intercept form, which means:

where:

= slope

= x value

= y-intercept

Therefore, the slope is

The flat rate of 29.99 does not change depending on months of service.  It is $29.99 no matter how long services are in use.  The monthy fee is directly related to the number of months the services are in use.

To evaluate , we just plug in a  wherever we see an  in the function, so our equation becomes

which is equal to

To find , all we do is plug in  wherever we see an  in the function. We have to be sure we keep the parentheses. In this case, when we plug in , we get

Then, when we expand our binomial squared and distribute the , we get

First, x needs to be plugged into g(x).

Then, the resulting solution needs to be substituted into f(x).

For example,

. 

Since 45 is an odd number, 7 is an x value that gives this result. Because both equations subtract an odd number to get the final result, only an odd number will result in an odd result therefore, none of the other options will give an odd result.