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How do you use the additive inverse to evaluate an expression that uses subtraction in a full sentence

The clayton family’s pool has vertices at the coordinates (0, 2), (0, 5), (2, 5), (2, 6), (5, 6), (5, 1), (2, 1), and (2, 2). if each grid square has an area of 9 square feet, what is the area of the pool?

Rewrite 9 log, x2 in a form that does not use exponents. 9log, x = log, x