Ramona is filling window box planters that will be sold to benefit a local charity she has 56 pansies 42 tulips 28 marigolds what is the greatest number of plants or she can fill if she wants to use all of the flowers and have the same number of each type of flower in each planter

Astudent draws two parabolas both parabolas cross the x axis at (-4,0) and (6,0) the y intercept of the first parabolas is (0,-12). the y intercept of the second parabola is (0,-24) what is the positive difference between the a values for the two functions that describe the parabolas