Could someone please answer these two questions please

Lindsay is creating a bridge out of dried pasta and glue. in her plans, she sketches the graph to determine the lengths of the noodles, in centimeters, needed for the arch to increase the length of the bridge in 1 centimeter increments.which function did lindsay use to create her design? f(x) = (x – 5)2 + 8 f(x) = –(x + 5)2 + 8 f(x) = 0.5(x + 5)2 + 8 f(x) = –0.5(x – 5)2 + 8

In factoring by grouping, what would you have for step 3 for the following? step 1: x^3 +5x^2 +4x+20 step 2: x^2 (x+5)+4(x+5) step 3: ?

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. james needs to clock a minimum of 9 hours per day at work. the data set records his daily work hours, which vary between 9 hours and 12 hours, for a certain number of days. {9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 10.5, 11, 11, 11.5, 11.5, 11.5, 12, 12}. the median number of hours james worked is . the skew of the distribution is