Marcus is planting a vegetable garden, and he has already determined what some of the sections of the garden will be. Below is a diagram of the garden, with all units in feet. (Diagram not shown to scale.) Marcus wants to place a fence around the cucumbers. What is the area of the section for cucumbers? (Your answer will be in terms of 'x').

3

step-by-step explanation:

because where the point where the 2 lines intersect is (3,-1) the x value is 3

step-by-step explanation:

we have

using a graphing tool

see the attached figure

this is a quadratic equation (vertical parabola) open up

the vertex is a > vertex

the domain of the function is all real > interval (-∞,∞)

the range of the function is the > [-6.125,∞)

the function has two x->   and

the function is increasing over the > (0.25,∞)

the function is decreasing over the > (-∞,0.25)