What is the answer to 40-2a squared when a=4?

Adaylily farm sells a portion of their daylilies and allows a portion to grow and divide. the recursive formula an=1.5(an-1)-100 represents the number of daylilies, a, after n years. after the fifth year, the farmers estimate they have 2225 daylilies. how many daylilies were on the farm after the first year?

Tom can paint the fence in 12 hours, but if he works together with a friend they can finish the job in 8 hours. how long would it take for his friend to paint this fence alone?

Abicycle training wheel has a radius of 3 inches. the bicycle wheel has a radius of 10 inches. approximately how much smaller, in square inches and rounded to the nearest hundredth, is the area of the training wheel than the area of the regular wheel? *