Your teacher purchases 24 pastries for a class celebration, for $2 each. which integer expresses the amount he paid?

-                       minus hes purchusing so hes losing money                            

step-by-step explanation:

through just a quick inspection, one can see that the graph of this cubing function starts in quadrant iii and ends in quadrant i.   when x = 0, y = 3, so the y-intercept is (0, 3).

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