What’s the equation and answer of x=-2 and y=-6

Josephine has a great garden with and area of 2x2 + x - 6 square feet

Suppose that the price p (in dollars) and the weekly sales x (in thousands of units) of a certain commodity satisfy the demand equation 4p cubedplusx squaredequals38 comma 400. determine the rate at which sales are changing at a time when xequals80, pequals20, and the price is falling at the rate of $.20 per week.

It took alice 5 5/6 hours to drive to her grandparents' house for . on the way home, she ran into traffic and it took her 7 3/8 hours. how much longer did the return trip take? write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number in simplest form. the trip home took __hours longer. ?