I Need Help I Don't Understand This Finding a final amount in a word problem on exponential growth or decay

A certain forest covers an area of ^2. Suppose that each year this area decreases by 8.5%. What will the area be after 8 years?
Use the calculator provided and round your answer to the nearest square kilometer.

Simplify. −4x^2 (5x^4−3x^2+x−2) −20x^6−12x^4+8x^3−8x^2 −20x^6+12x^4−4x^3+8x^2 −20x^8+12x^4−4x^2+8x −20x^6+12x^4+4x^3−8x^2

An arithmetic series a consists of consecutive integers that are multiples of 4 what is the sum of the first 9 terms of this sequence if the first term is 0

The number of chocolate chips in a bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 12611261 chips and a standard deviation of 118118 chips. (a) determine the 2626th percentile for the number of chocolate chips in a bag. (b) determine the number of chocolate chips in a bag that make up the middle 9696% of bags. (c) what is the interquartile range of the number of chocolate chips in a bag of chocolate chip cookies?