R^2-3r-54=0 Solve by completing the square and show you work please so I can understand how to do it

Aschool puts on a play. the play costs $1,200 in expenses. the students charge $4.00 for tickets. there will be one performance of the play in an auditorium that seats 500 people. what is the domain of the function that shows the profit as a function of the number of tickets sold?  

Two corresponding sides of two similar triangles are 3cm and 5cm. the area of the first triangle is 12cm^2. what is the area of the second triangle?

Need now max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.