Chef jess made a cake with an area of 93 ½ inches. if the width of the cake was 8 ½ inches, what was the length of the cake?

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