PLEASE HELP thank you very much Martina designed a painting for art class, as shown in the drawing below. Her design contains 4 circles on a square canvas. Each circle has a radius of 6 inches. The circles touch the edges of the canvas and each other, as show below.
The shaded section of Martina's design will be painted black. Which is closest to the area that will be painted black?​

if the eqn of the parabola is f(x) = (x-4)(x+2), we need to mult. this out to find the coordinates of the vertex.

then f(x) = x^2 + 2x - 4x - 8, and f(x) = x^2 - 2x - 8.

one way in which you can find the vertex is to calculate x = -b / (2a).   here, that comes to

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x = = 1.   f(1) = 1^2 - 2(1) - 8 = - 9.   vertex is at (1, -9).

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find another point on the curve:   let x=0, for which y=-8.   then (0, -8) is on the curve.   plot the vertex and this point and draw a smooth parabola thru both.

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