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2.) Given the function f (x) = 5x2 - 2, find f(-3). Please show your work.

User Shalita
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So the function is:


f(x)=5x^2-2

and f(-3) will be replacing the x = -3 in the original function:


f(-3)=5(-3)^2-2

and now we can solve the operations:


\begin{gathered} f(-3)=5\cdot9-2 \\ f(-3)=45-2 \\ f(-3)=43 \end{gathered}

User Bhavya Shaktawat
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