SOLUTION: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/darael14/polynomial_5.jpg ..this is a link to a diagram that I cannot format here on this site. If you could please look at this and tell

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Question 155478: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a38/darael14/polynomial_5.jpg

..this is a link to a diagram that I cannot format here on this site. If you could please look at this and tell me how to write this as a polynomial.Thank you so much!!!!!
Found 2 solutions by oscargut, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by oscargut(891) (Show Source):
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area=

Answer by jim_thompson5910(28598) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Area of outer rectangle:

Area of inner rectangle:

Since we only want the area of the shaded region, this means that we're going to simply subtract the area of the inner rectangle from the area of the outer rectangle.

So the area of the shaded region is

Note: this may be unnecessary, but factors to