What is 2a squared if a=3?

For a read-a-thon, jay and odhràn each started reading a book at the same time and continued reading for several hours. jay's book had 278 pages, and he read 55 pages per hour. odhràn's book had 238 pages, and he read 45 pages per hour. after how many hours did they have the same number of pages left, and how many pages were left?

The soup shack usually makes tomato soup with 99 tomatoes for every 1212 cups of soup. today, they made 88 cups of soup with 66 tomatoes. how does today's soup compare to the usual recipe?

In the coordinate plan (-6,9) b (3,9) c (3,3) def is shown in the coordinate plan below