Which expression represents "the product of a and b decreased by 9"?

"curse these trig-loving pirates! " devora mutters as she looks at the map. then, after thinking for a moment, she walks back to the entrance of the secret cave, measuring 48 meters along the way. after performing a calculation, devora walks back to the empty treasure, faces the entrance, and turns a certain number of degrees to her left before walking 89 meters to the treasure. supposing that the angle at the cave entrance is acute and that devora's calculations were correct, how many degrees did she turn?

Your car's gasoline tank holds 18 gallons of gasoline. on a trip in canada, the tank is one-quarter full. you want to fill the tank. how many liters of gasoline are needed to fill the tank

Milk and ice cream are mixed together for a recipe. the total volume of the mixture is 1 cup. if the milk contains 2% fat, the cream contains 18% fat ,and the mixture contains 6% fat ,how much cream is in the mixture